“My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing t...” — Tim Sweeney Quote

My role is more like a chairman and founder. I am used to overseeing the company's heritage and our strategy.

Both multiplayer games and online forums have this property of virtual anonymity. Other people can't really see you; they don't really know who you are. And so the sort of social moderating mechanisms in real life, and your desire not to offend people around you, don't really adjust.

Whenever there is somebody at Epic who is capable of doing something better than me, I let them at it.

It turns out that the most powerful use of technology is to connect people together socially.

If you look at why people are paid to do things, it's because they're creating a good or delivering a service that's valuable to somebody. There's just as much potential for that in these virtual environments as there is in the real world.

Ever since I've become chairman, there have been profiles of me in People, George, The Washington Post, The Detroit News, and all of them could have been written by the same person.

From 1966 to 1970 I served as Chairman of the New Haven City Plan Commission.

I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.

Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.

The frustration of Washington is you have to concentrate on just a few areas to really make a difference, and then so much of the power is at the top, at the committee chairman level.