Playing Games quotes
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I play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
-- Alexander Fleming -
I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.
-- Ali Smith -
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
-- Ang Lee -
We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.
-- Barack Obama -
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I do love playing games, but once I have a girlfriend, she will be my princess.
-- Cho Kyuhyun -
I've been playing games for 30 years, and I've been a hard-core gamer.
-- Curt Schilling -
Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
-- Dan Rather -
Fortunately we have a product for people who aren't able to get some form of connectivity, it's called Xbox 360.
-- Don Mattrick -
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When I use a direct manipulation system whether for text editing, drawing pictures, or creating and playing games I do think of myself not as using a computer but as doing the particular task. The computer is, in effect, invisible. The point cannot be overstressed: make the computer system invisible.
-- Donald A. Norman -
We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.
-- Douglas Rushkoff -
It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!
-- Ernie Banks -
Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything. Put that question another way.
-- Ernie Banks -
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D and D: a role-playing game played only by very cool guys.
-- Frank Portman -
Games are the most social of all things on the web.
-- Fred Wilson -
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
-- Frederick Carl Frieseke -
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.
-- Gabe Newell -
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I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.
-- Gary Gygax -
Man's most serious activity is play.
-- George Santayana -
Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.
-- Italo Calvino -
PlayStation 4 won't impose any new restrictions on used games. This is a good thing... When a gamer buys a PS4 disc, they have the rights to that copy of the game.
-- Jack Tretton -
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Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.
-- James Paul Gee -
It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.
-- Jane McGonigal -
If you are a gamer, it’s time to get over any regret you might feel about spending so much time playing games. You have not been wasting your time. You have been building up a wealth of virtual experience that, as the first half of this book will show you, can teach you about your true self: what your core strengths are, what really motivates you, and what make you happiest.
-- Jane McGonigal -
The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.
-- Jane McGonigal -
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We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.
-- Jane McGonigal -
It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.
-- Jane McGonigal -
With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game.
-- Jeremy Lin -
Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.
-- Jesse Schell -
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I think the reason that I like so many different games is because I like the way my brain works when I'm playing games. It's more fun.
-- John Romero -
I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's talking about, 'Aw yeah, I slit this guy in the throat and then I stuck a grenade up this guy's ass.' He's describing it in all this detail, and that makes me uncomfortable. I don't think that's good for him.
-- Jonathan Gottschall -
When the computer and tablets are all about playing games, thats not interesting to me.
-- Julianne Moore -
Another piece of clarification around playing games at a friend's house - should you choose to play your game at your friend's house, there is no fee to play that game while you are signed in to your profile.
-- Larry Hryb -
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
-- Leo Buscaglia -
I didn't meddle. If I did meddle there wouldn't be all this violence. All this horrible sexism in games.
-- Lincoln Chafee -
I like monsters in general - that's what I like to write about. Somebody was joking with me that my body was becoming a manual for a role-playing game because I'm covered in little monsters. That's true. I could easily have more monsters on my skin.
-- Maria Dahvana Headley -
The way I see it, more people are wired with broadband from 9 to 5 during the day than watch TV at night. So therefore isn't the real prime time 9 to 5? Playing games at your desk - that's the new prime time, isn't it?
-- Mark Burnett -
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like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.
-- Naomi Shihab Nye -
The next time you're mad at me, talk to me,' he said. 'Don't shut me out. I don't like playing games. And by the way, I had a great time, too.
-- Nicholas Sparks -
What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.
-- Ryan C. Gordon -
I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They start to lose and say, ‘I’m dying.’ It’s not right for kids to think about a concept of death that way. They need to treat death with more respect.
-- Satoshi Tajiri -
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Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
For a long time at Nintendo we didn't focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features. But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the Internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities.
-- Shigeru Miyamoto -
I mean I'm talking about playing games, about imagining other people, and it's part of the way that it helps you actually see the world.
-- Simon McBurney -
Most of the people who had PCs did not have modems and could not use those PCs as communicating devices. They really were using them for spreadsheets or word processing or storing recipes or playing games or what have you.
-- Steve Case -
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We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.
-- Tim Schafer -
The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.
-- Donna M. Loring -
Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.
-- Donna M. Loring -
Waltes is still played, which is a bowl and dice game that's traditional for this area.
-- Richard Dyer -
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I grew up playing games, and I remember Christmas 1981 when my dad got us an Intellivision, and we all sat around and played 'Astrosmash' for hours on end. It was a big part of my youth.
-- Roger Craig Smith -
I don't get nervous in any situation. There's no such thing as nerves when you're playing games.
-- Shaquille O'Neal -
I love my home, just playing games and just sleeping. No matter where you go, nothing is better than sleeping.
-- Rain -
I like words and numbers. I'm obsessed with them. You know, I think I would've been a mathematician had I kept up, but it's the stuff in your head, you know? It's like being technologically adept. You have it or you don't. You can learn it, but some people just have it. They go to sleep, wake up, and know everything. I like games, too. I love playing games.
-- Jackee Harry -
