I liked that line in the movie ‘Shakespeare in Love’: ‘How is this going to work out? I don’t know, but it always does.’ — Todd Howard

Great games are played, not made. — Todd Howard

One of the things that we really like about ‘Fallout 76’ is that we’ve built it so that we can support it on a month–to–month and week–to–week basis. — Todd Howard

I’m addicted to my iPhone and get a game for it every few days. — Todd Howard

I played everything, but the games that kept me up and night and tickled my fancy were the larger role–playing games like ‘Ultima.’ — Todd Howard

I see games… as the ultimate combination of art and technology. — Todd Howard

Don’t define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have. — Todd Howard

I think the journey of making a game… we want to enjoy that process. — Todd Howard

Memory is a big one: our ability to use the memory and move things in and out efficiently–that affected what we were able to do more than anything. — Todd Howard

People tend to look at processing power as how to gauge a piece of hardware is powerful for us. — Todd Howard

Every year, there’s a new idea we can’t do and a new technology for something that excites us. — Todd Howard

Time makes a bigger difference: just making a game, shipping it, looking at what you did, how you did it, what you did well, what you didn’t do well, and doing better. — Todd Howard

As long as something is happening it really does not matter if it is of God, of man or of the devil.–Rodney Howard — Browne

Batman. I like the idea that if I had enough money, time, and vengeance, I could become him. — Todd Howard

I’m happy that you can play ‘Morrowind’ now on an Xbox One, as it’s backwards compatible. — Todd Howard

The way we built ‘Future Shock,’ you have a height map and instanced 3–D objects rendering on top–that, believe it or not, is still how we build today. It’s our basic paradigm for how to build a space. — Todd Howard

Fallout 76′ and ‘Blades’ get a lot of my time right now. I’m in more meetings as it’s gotten bigger. — Todd Howard

The technology for radiant stories in ‘Skyrim’ is phenomenal. We tried and pared it back. — Todd Howard

I’d been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name ‘Bethesda, Maryland’ on ‘Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.’ — Todd Howard

There are more players on ‘Fallout Shelter’ than all of my games combined. That’s a little sobering at times. It’s not a good or bad thing. — Todd Howard

The main thing that excites me is that games are successful everywhere now. Now it’s successful everywhere, and that’s really important for the health of the industry. — Todd Howard