Markus Persson Quotes

Markus Persson

Profession : Businessman

Birth : June 1, 1979

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.'

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'Minecraft' is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I'll probably abandon it immediately.

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Facebook creeps me out.

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I first wore a hat after seeing a friend wear a hat. It seemed like a neat way to keep snow off my head without having to wear a beanie, so I tried it on for a while. Turns out I started wearing the hat at around the time people took pictures of me and put them online and in newspapers, so it kind of became part of my public image.

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I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

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With the creative stuff, I have highs of being very productive and lows of being not productive. I have that in my moods as well.

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I never really had the fun teens of exploring the world because I was sitting at home, learning programming.

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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.

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I think the more realistic you try to make the graphics and the experience, the more you limit yourself to a single vision.

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If I had intended for 'Minecraft' to end up on consoles, I wouldn't have developed the game in Java. The decision to port the game to consoles came from a combination of player requests, a desire to play around with the brand on different platforms, and some interesting business deals.

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

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'Minecraft' certainly became a huge hit, and people are telling me it's changed games. I never meant for it to do either. It's certainly flattering, and to gradually get thrust into some kind of public spotlight is interesting.

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The speed at which modern CPUs perform computations still blows my mind daily.

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Specifically, my favorite tool in Java is hot code swapping in debug mode, meaning I can edit the code while the game is running and immediately see the results in the running game. This is super great for rapid tweaking.

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For 'Minecraft,' it actually started with an isometric strategy game.

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I definitely think 'Minecraft' is a freak thing. There's no way you could replicate it intentionally.

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