Randy Pitchford

“You can polish and iterate and double down on what the magic was. You can make a much better thing. A much cleaner thing, a much more solid thing. And that's what 'Borderlands 2' is to 'Borderlands.'”

“I've got a 6,000 square-foot home in Plano that probably costs as much as a three-bedroom house in Van Nuys.”

“I've been stealing from the Alien films throughout my entire career.”

“When people take risks and it's not rewarded, in the case of 'Mirror's Edge,' it's makes it harder for others to be comfortable taking risks.”

“And Duke Nukem, I think he is the most iconic videogame character in the industry. I think Lara Croft is the female and Duke Nukem is the male. Between them, they're the most iconic figures in videogames.”

“What a lot of people don't know is that I got started as a professional gamemaker when I moved out to Texas to join George Broussard and Scott Miller and Allen Blum who created Duke Nukem, to join those guys and become part of the 'Duke Nukem 3D.'”

“In 'Colonial Marines' you come into the game as a marine, and how you play depends on your equipment and by the choices you're making in real time.”

“We're convinced that Frisco Square is the perfect environment for Gearbox Software's new headquarters and we are eager to break ground, build out and move in so that we may join the community and bring everything we can to the city as a Frisco business and as Frisco citizens.”

“Things that are created with passion tend to work out better than things that are assignments that we don't really want to do.”

“Demand alone might let a business case be created, but things driven by that will have a risk of being soulless. You need it being driven from both directions. You need the nexus between demand and creative passion that wants to make something.”

“I want to make sure that people with talents, who want to perform or to develop their act, know that the Peacock Theater exists and to reach out to us and know that there's a safe and fun place for them to develop their material.”

“I remember when I discovered The Beatles with music and The Beatles peaked before I was born and when I discovered them I felt really special.”

“Condition Zero' introduces quite a bit of content and gameplay to 'Counter-Strike' including new weapons, characters, mission types and even new technology to enhance to look and feel of the game.”

“If you're going to take a risk, some people will like what you offer, and some definitely won't.”

“Borderlands' asks you to pick a class, and once you've chosen that character class, you've committed yourself to that game session.”

“The key is when we make mistakes, we want to be able to correct them and we also want to be able to learn from them so that we do not make the same mistake twice.”

“Usually when we finish a game and we're at the end, we're sick of it. We want to put it in the box and be done with it. But with 'Borderlands,' it's actually become a productivity sink at Gearbox, because we're just having fun.”

“I did not acquire the franchise merely so people could experience 'Duke Nukem Forever.' That was, sort of, the toll to pay to give 'Duke Nukem' a chance at a future.”

“There's no trend lines that work in entertainment. You can break any trend line by offering value that we as consumers of content want.”

“There is always the person who's got to stand on the sandcastle, they must crush it.”