{"id":14750,"date":"2025-10-24T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T18:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14750"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T19:09:54","slug":"quotes-from-early-developers-carlos-escobar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14750","title":{"rendered":"Quotes from Early Developers &#8211; Carlos Escobar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I got to meet Al Lowe, a developer from early Sierra adventure games, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/adventuregamefanfair.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/adventuregamefanfair.com\/\">Adventure Game Fan Fair<\/a>. He talked at a panel and I got him to sign some of my copies of his games. During his talk, he mentioned a fabulously <a href=\"http:\/\/larrylaffer.net\/non-lsl-games\/in-memory-carlos-escobar\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"http:\/\/larrylaffer.net\/non-lsl-games\/in-memory-carlos-escobar\">quotable coworker named Carlos Escobar<\/a>. Carlos was known around the office for always having a smile, his friendliness &#8211; and especially his witty commentary. His coworkers at Sierra even put these quotes into an autoexec.bat script that would print one of his pearls of humor randomly on each boot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>\u201cThere\u2019s a fine line between my friends\u2026 and the people I get stuck working with.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHe is a legend\u2026 in his own mind.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI like you just as much today as I did yesterday.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cHappy thoughts, phony smile.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cWhy be nice when you can be honest?\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m not trying to save the world\u2026 but maybe I should \u2014 it would be easier.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI almost care.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cDon\u2019t get married. Don\u2019t have kids!\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI hear DOS is making a comeback.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIt could be worse; it could be me.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m mildly impressed.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cGood enough for who it\u2019s for.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cYou know you\u2019re lost if you have to make a printout.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;What good are friends if I can\u2019t take advantage of them?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;A fool and his money soon become my close personal friends.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI share my bitterness with everyone!\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cIf I want your opinion, I\u2019ll give it to you.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>His off-hand comment about a coworker brought up a lot of memories for me because I used to keep a quote board on my wipeboard at my first software engineering job. It got pretty hilarious at times &#8211; and there were some real doozies much like the ones Carlos said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think it was kind of like the military or any other organization that&#8217;s tight knit, full of comradery, and yet full of funny snark because the job you&#8217;re doing has long hours and lots of stress. It came from an environment where you were still young and adventuresome, full of amazing people doing amazing stuff, working crazy hard, but really having fun and trusted\/liked your coworkers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I feel really blessed and lucky to have had such a great set of first jobs at Intel &#8211; with at the time &#8211; were some of the best engineers in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/larrylaffer.net\/non-lsl-games\/in-memory-carlos-escobar\">http:\/\/larrylaffer.net\/non-lsl-games\/in-memory-carlos-escobar<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/158786124205430\/\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/158786124205430\/<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/juanco.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/juanco.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got to meet Al Lowe, a developer from early Sierra adventure games, at the Adventure Game Fan Fair. He talked at a panel and I got him to sign some of my copies of his games. During his talk, he mentioned a fabulously quotable coworker named Carlos Escobar. Carlos was known around the office for always having a smile, his friendliness &#8211; and especially his witty commentary. His coworkers at Sierra even put these quotes into an autoexec.bat script&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14750\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3PU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14750"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14753,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14750\/revisions\/14753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}