The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying.

The situation is so much better for programmers today - a cheap used PC, a linux CD, and an internet account, and you have all the tools necessary to work your way to any level of programming skill you want to shoot for.

Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.

One of the big lessons of a big project is you don't want people that aren't really programmers programming, you'll suffer for it!

If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.