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Gabe Logan Newell , commonly known by his nickname Gaben , is an American computer programmer and businessman best known as the co-founder of the video game development and digital distribution company Valve Corporation. Born in Colorado, he attended Harvard University in the early 1980s, but dropped out and soon went to work for the American technology company Microsoft, where he spent the next decade working as a producer for some of their early Windows operating systems.

During his time at Microsoft, Newell, along with fellow co-worker Mike Harrington, were impressed by computer games that were being released in the mid-1990s, such as id Software's Doom and Quake. Fully convinced that video games were the future of entertainment, and intrigued by the prospect of having his own game development studio, Newell, along with Harrington, left Microsoft in 1996 to found Valve, of which he remains president.

✵ 3. November 1962
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Famous Gabe Newell Quotes

“The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.”

Gabe Newell

YouTube - What Most Schools Don't Teach, code.org, 2013-02-26, 2014-11-22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKIu9yen5nc,

“This isn't working.”

Gabe Newell

YouTube - Gabe Newell at GDC 2010, 2010-03-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gv7sitp0fk,

“George Lucas should have distributed the "source code" to Star Wars. Millions of fans would create their own movies and stories. Most of them would be terrible, but a few would be genius.”

Gabe Newell

It's A Mod, Mod Underworld, Victoria Murphy Barret, Forbes, 2005-12-12, 2008-02-21, http://web.archive.org/web/20080501213031/http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2005/1212/064_2.html, 2008-05-01 http://www.forbes.com/business/forbes/2005/1212/064_2.html,

“I'd like to thank Sony for their gracious hospitality, and for not repeatedly punching me in the face. If I seem a little nervous, it's because Kevin Butler was introduced to me backstage as the VP of sharpening things.”

Gabe Newell

YouTube - Portal 2 comes to PS3 Sony Press Confrence e3 2010, Gabe Newell, Sony, 2010-06-15, 2010-07-04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOccsagMgEs,

“The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It’s really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.”

Gabe Newell

Valve boss blows a gasket over PS3, Tim Ingham, MCV, 2008-01-15, 2008-02-21 http://www.mcvuk.com/news/25317/Valve-boss-blows-a-gasket-over-PS3,

“Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.”

Gabe Newell

Interview: Gabe Newell, Gabe Newell, The Cambridge Student, 2011-11-24 http://www.tcs.cam.ac.uk/interviews/0012301-interview-gabe-newell.html,

“C'mon, people, you can't show the player a really big bomb and not let them blow it up.”

Gabe Newell

Valve, Valve Software, Valve Software, 2010-06-09, 2010-06-09 http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/people.html,

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