About half the people at Valve have run their own companies, so they always have the option not just to take a job at another game company, but to go start their own company. The question you always have to answer is, 'How are we making these people more valuable than they would be elsewhere?'

I'm a utility infielder. There's always somebody who is better at a specific task than I am, but I can pitch in at a bunch of different things as needed.

We just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).

I've always wanted to be a giant space crab.

Valve wouldn’t have gotten its start

Piracy is almost always a service problem.

It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.