If you think education is expensive, try the cost of ignorance.
— Derek Bok (by way of Neil deGrasse Tyson), Stephen Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson at Montclair Kimberley Academy
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We need the excuse of a fiction to stage what we really are.
— Slavoj Žižek, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
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As a developer, you should work first and foremost for the user of your products. The second most important person to work for is the developer that takes over from you.
— Christian Heilmann, [Quoted in Presentation]
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Individual genius is doomed. The future will be written by the mediocre holding hands.
— Theron Jacobs, 23 Apr via web
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In a child’s mind it is possible to be alone forever.
— Martin Usborne, MUTE: the silence of dogs in cars
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Don’t worry about people stealing an idea. If it’s original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
— Howard Aiken, Quotations
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If I bailed on games due to uninspiring narrative, I’d never play a video game.
— Trent Polack, Buzz by Steve Amodio
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Stacking, then, is much less about problem-solving than about collecting and admiring—truly a game of its time.
— Ryan Kuo, Stacking Review
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It is an invariable principle of all play, that whoever plays, plays freely. Whoever must play, cannot play.
— James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
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The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
— Thucydides, by way of Aza Raskin
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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death -however mutable man may be able to make them- our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick interview in Playboy magazine 1968, However vast the darkness...
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The Olympics are designed for people who want to care about something without considering why.
— Chuck Klosterman, IV. 256.
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