Markus Persson

“I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.”

“If you build a car, you can only sell it once. If you paint a fence, you only get paid for it once. If you create a piece of software that's essentially free to reproduce, you can keep getting paid over and over perpetually.”

“Facebook is not a company of grass-roots tech enthusiasts. Facebook is not a game tech company. Facebook has a history of caring about building user numbers, and nothing but building user numbers.”

“I'm a little confused by love.”

“Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.”

“PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs.”

“Having built-in video recording capabilities for a game that focuses on user-generated content might be a very good thing.”

“I didn't really have much luck with women when I was younger, so on some level, I feel like I don't really belong.”

“I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community.”

“We try to make games we want to make for the sake of making fun games and not necessarily to make a profit.”

“Partying is not a sane way to spend money, but it's fun. When we were young, we did not have a lot of money at all, so I thought, 'If I ever get rich, I'm not going to become one of those boring rich people who doesn't spend money.'”

“I remember disassembling and putting an old analog alarm clock together. It was a lot of fun figuring out why it still worked with that one spring missing.”

“When you have the kind of success 'Minecraft' has brought, you can just choose yourself the way you want to do things.”