Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture

by David Kushner

Programming is a science based on limited resources;

Rand and Robyn Scott

Rand and Robyn MILLER

It was not only a gracious move but an ideological one—a leftist gesture that empowered the people and, in turn, loosened the grip of corporations.

A new generation of programmers was devoting their work, their lives, to realizing the Holodeck. As John Carmack said, “It’s a moral imperative that we must create this.” His contribution would be Quake.

From now on if people wanted to know the completion date of an id game, the reply was “When it’s done!”

Valve time

Though people felt like they were working without direction, at the same time no one wanted really to be told what to do.