John Carmack Quotes

I loved my computer; it's a tool. A tool increases your mechanical advantages. It allows you to use your strengths and talents to greater advantage, and that's what tools do, and that's what my computer does for me. It's not my toy, it's my tool.

You could say I was too lazy to calculate, so I invented the computer.

Pretty much all of my inventions come about the same way. I have an everyday problem or something that I'm too lazy to do, so I make a machine that does it for me.

By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges.

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community.

Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to make us a little lazy about reading books and doing things the hard way to understand how those things work.

Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Science is analytical, descriptive, informative. Man does not live by bread alone, but by science he attempts to do so. Hence the deadliness of all that is purely scientific.

I can be the most skilled person in the world, but if everyone else at my firm lacks skills, my employer is going to find it more difficult to introduce new technology, new production techniques. So as a result, my employer is going to be less productive. They will not be able to afford to pay me as good wages.

In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Some people think technology has the answers.

Invention is the mother of necessity.

Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

I am a thief of knowledge, and in a survival way, I had to solve all the problems around me.

Intelligence is the faculty of making artificial objects, especially tools to make tools.

Productivity is grounded in the PC. Where does the computing power come from? How would you run 'USA Today' without PCs? Run a hospital without PCs? People don't want products, they want solutions.

It was a case of the technology catching up with the problem.

Necessity, the mother of invention

The pen is not mightier than the sword; and mightier than either, and more necessary, is the hoe.

The difference between a hacker and consumer is a consumer says, "I wish it would work this way." A hacker says, "I've got a screwdriver and a few minutes.

It's a survival thing. I don't do anything to be artistic or just because I like it.