"It always bothers me when people say 'why reinvent the wheel', because the wheel is an _amazing_ invention. It is almost perfect -- or quite possibly perfect -- for what it does. It perfectly turns static friction into dynamic friction for moving objects. It is something that so elegant and beautiful, that if you were to ask why we would want to reinvent it, I would say _of course_ we do not want to reinvent it. It has worked for thousands of years, and has been unchanged for thousands of years. _Nothing_ we have developed in the past 30 years of game-development, is a wheel. In the future we will have so much more powerful tools for game development, that people will laugh at the things we did to make games. If we want _to get to_ a wheel, we need people that will _attempt to make the wheel_."