David Crane Quotations

We are pleased to be increasing our investment in California as the State has made progress with regard to capacity markets and long-term contracting options. As we've said, we will continue to pursue market development that supports the continued operations of existing plants that Californians need and investment in the next generation of energy infrastructure.

We're going to split crews up to handle the cargo. Some will go to Chicago and arrange for its export out of the country, and others will go directly to Beijing and wait for its arrival.

One week before Pitfall! was to be released, I only gave you one life to play the whole game. I was experimenting with that concept as sort of the ultimate challenge.

My background is in hardware design. I found hardware work to be a welcome change from thousands of hours of programming and that led to the designs you mentioned.

Plus, I was a math and science whiz from my first introduction to the subjects.

I'd like to hope that years from now people can look at the reruns...and say 'That is still a really funny show' or 'It's still really sweet.' And if that happens ... I'll be thrilled.

From a legal perspective, it is going fine.

I think we paid a fair price at the right time. Companies like this don't become available in our sector very often.

I was a little hesitant at taking the job at Atari. I had never programmed for a living and I worried it might get boring (building circuits seemed more fun). But I would probably still be in the video game business.

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

When we put them (Monica and Chandler) in bed together initially, I don't think we realized that this would be the loves of their lives. We went into it going 'Well, we'll see how many weeks this works,'

We were advised that nobody could stop us from pursuing our craft simply because we had honed, or even developed that craft while working at a company.

We kept insisting that so long as you cared about the characters and there was a universal aspect to the story you didn't have to service every demographic.

We need to have Charles Taylor turned over to us and put into a detention cell where he will receive a fair and open trial, ... He is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

What is most important to us is that we don't have people pretending to be clients trying to get into this line to receive benefits they're not entitled to.

You have a story, it doesn't work, you throw it out, and you have to come up with another story in the same week. That goes away and you have to find a third story. Every night you're coming up with a whole new idea.

We are building more and more screened porches, sunrooms, decks and all sorts of outdoor spaces.

Another little known fact about Amazing Tennis - the computer opponents are modeled after real people. In an odd turn of events, I joined a division 3 college tennis team at age 38.

There's no zero-emissions coal. There is a technology called clean coal, which is getting very, very close.

There's nothing about being in Texas we don't like,

The terms of that settlement were never disclosed - not even to me. I was asked if I wanted to know and having had enough of lawsuits I declined.

Texas Genco is an ideal strategic fit with NRG. The strengths of its people and its assets align closely with our own, bolstering NRG's platform for growth and our ability to drive value for our shareholders.

Rant and rave at the system, defy the court and then eventually simmer down as the trial moves forward.

After eight years and the last three hours and 10 minutes, this is so worth the wait.

This gives me a sense of completeness that the whole process was worth every step. This is a good day for Liberia.

There's an emotional component to the show that we can never lose sight of because I think the shows you get tired of the fastest are the ones where you don't really invest on some level.

It was a very constructive exercise. The final product is a better measure.

It really has to be seen by the people of Iraq that's who this is for and about that justice is going to take place. If they perceive that this is not going to happen, that's where this will unravel.

That's right, fall in one pit and start over from the beginning! Well, thankfully my buddies practically tied me to my chair until I put in extra lives and I'm glad they did.

It's such a fast crime -- they can be in your car and gone literally before it can be reported.

The balance of civil liberties and national security has always been a precarious one. A balance that has been tested since the founding of our republic.

The international community got this right. It's located at the place where it should be, and that's at the scene of the crime. It is more efficient to have it in the location because that's where all the witnesses are.

The issue is people coming off the streets that don't belong in there trying to get benefits.

I just want to dispel some of the rumors that are going around that crime is rampant, crime is on the increase within the complex here at Reliant. It is not the case.

If you look at the statewide major occupational groups, it's pretty much as we expected. The larger the occupation, the more openings you have. Plus a lot are for more minimum wage and lower pay that would involve less . . . education and experience. And there's a lot of turnover in these jobs.

Garry Kitchen and I played hugely competitive matches of Amazing Tennis. There is a great thing about that game from a tennis player's perspective.

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.