30 Quotes by Sid Meier

No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.

A game is a series of interesting choices.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

A good game impresses you with what you’re doing. I think that’s a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.

I like some shooters, and I respect games like Doom, but I don’t think it’s right for me.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn’t think it was right for strategy games.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they’ve accomplished.

It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they’re choosing to migrate to that platform.