John Romero Quotes

I think DOOM had just the right mix of elements that keep people coming back to it: great monsters, excellent weapons with great balance, a spooky environment and extreme speed.

With a sequel you're always trying to get bigger and better.

I've been playing 'Doom' for some years.

I've improved a lot in every part of the game.

I've been a fan of 'Call of Duty' for a long time.

From a narrative perspective, 'Blue Shift' for the PC and 'Blue Shift' for the Dreamcast are very similar.

I love watching 'Orange Is the New Black,' and I play video games, like 'Call of Duty.'

What if getting bigger isn't the point? What if you merely got better?

It's not imitating anything; it has become a better version of itself.

It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides.

Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

You can change things, you can make things better.

There's a lot of things we could do better.

I ask not for a larger garden, but for finer seeds.

Can we have a conversation about the substance? That's what I welcome. We're happy to have those conversations if there are places where people think there can be improvements. We want competition in the system, so let's talk about that.

I'm still rough around the edges and need a lot of polishing.

Before you take anything away, you must have something better to put in its place.

Practice only makes for improvement.

It's very easy to make something that is new. So we are trying to make things that are better.

The more you win, the better you're gonna get. It grows on itself.

To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

It strikes me that the only reason to take apart a pocket watch, or a car engine, aside from the simple delight of disassembly, is to find out how it works. To understand it, so you can put it back together again better than before, or build a new one that goes beyond what the old one could do. We've been taking apart the superhero for ten years or more; it's time to put it back together and wind it up, time to take it out on the road and floor it, see what it'll do.

I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit in, and raise it to another level if I can. And this [Code Black ] has been another one of those really fun success stories, much like Parks And Recreation, although obviously on the other side of the comedy/drama equation.

When something is 'new and improved', which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it.

Good is good, but better carrieth it.