34 Quotes by Bill Budge

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

I have a really powerful urge to see things work.

I know when something is kind of half-baked.

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders.

I started on an Apple II, which I had bought at the very end of 1978 for half of my annual income. I made $4,500 a year, and I spent half of it on the computer.

The Apple has the fewest bells and whistles. It has simple sound and few graphics special effects. In a way, that is a weakness because markets for the other machines are getting bigger.

My interest is home computer software. I'm not in it because it is booming; I think the key is that the programs must tell you how to use them.

Right now computing can be hard. Machine language is somewhat inaccessible. And Basic is not quite so bad, but it still blows some people away.

I have sort of been swept along on the crest of this wave right from the beginning. It gets bigger and bigger, and I try to stay a stroke ahead of it.