I did take some value out of looking at the extreme simplicity of implementation that the tight resource limits required. I do feel that modern games are often abstracted a lot more than is really necessary, and it leads to robustness issues.
A lot of the work at Oculus has gone into working out better position tracking.
A strong team can take any crazy vision and turn it into reality.
The core of what I do is solve problems, whether that's in graphic engine flow or rockets. I like working on things that are going to have an impact one way or the other.
Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty.
I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person.