Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

If you're willing to restrict the flexibility of your approach, you can almost always do something 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.

Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now.

You can prematurely optimize maintainability, flexibility, security, and robustness just like you can performance.

It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.