If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
Gabe NewellOne of the things that's important about family is the narrative history they create for themselves.
Gabe NewellWe just always focus on quality, which can be frustrating during the wait, but which pays off when we're done (we hope).
Gabe NewellThe culture at Valve is pretty much crowdsourced. The handbook is a wiki. One of the first things we say to new hires is, 'You have to change something in the handbook.'
Gabe Newell