Gabe Newell is a wonderful human being. I've never met him, so I can't back that statement up with any sort of concrete anecdotal evidence, but I can just feel in my heart that he's one of the good ones. Whenever I see him I get a warm fuzzy feeling inside, he makes me feel important and special, like the kid in the Werther's Original advert.He's one of the few people that can do something clearly designed to make him sack loads of cash or market a product, and make it endearing.