Quotes from Randy Pitchford

I've always wanted to ride a sail barge and drive a sand skiff.

Each scenario in 'Battleborn' is kind of like a TV episode, you can play them in any order, and each one has a beginning, middle, and end. And they are super replayable.

I owe my career to 'Duke.'

The first-person shooter genre owes itself to 'Duke Nukem.'

Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.

I think I would not be who I am if I did not have experience both as an audience and as a performer in those early days of my career. It taught me what entertainment is all about.

Blue Shift' is a game that I'm very proud of.

Duke Nukem' helped bridge the gap between games designed for adults and what they wanted in their entertainment as adults who also wanted to have fun. 'Duke Nukem' bridged that gap and helped bring those things together. It's one of the reasons it succeeded at the time.

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

No gamer, whether you've played 'Duke 3D' or you haven't, can play 'Duke Forever' without having experiences that surprise them.

There's a different kind of experience you have when you experience live entertainment versus the kinds of media we tend to consume most of, when we're watching television or films or reading books. Live entertainment is a whole different beast.

There are several cool cross-overs between 'Blue Shift,' 'Opposing Force' and 'Half-Life.' The plots are all designed to work nicely with themselves and the observant player will catch many cross-references.

As successful as 'Borderlands' is and as much fun as everyone is having going after all the loot and finding and using all the weapons in the game, I often think that we really missed the mark by only doing 87 bazillion guns.

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.

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

When I'm in line at the grocery store, I might pick up one of those tabloids. I might not even buy it. I'm just gonna sit there and read the headlines and chuckle at how stupid that stuff is, even though I'm reading it anyway.

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.

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.

Most single player games put a lone character against an army that is just standing around waiting for the player to show up and defeat them.

I have a lot of respect for those in medicine that are trying to extend our lives or help us when we're sick.

There are times when you can take yourself seriously and there are times when you can cut loose. It really depends on your goals and it depends on what you're promising the customer.

A very important part of game development is testing - something that a lot of developers don't do.

Taking 'Duke Nukem Forever' on was a very easy decision for me to make.

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.'