Herman Leonard quotes

“If you take away the fancy graphics of today's games, most of the time you're left with a shell of a game that has been done to death a million times.”
-- Herman Leonard

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“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

“The pressure I put on myself is the only pressure I'm feeling once I get into the game.”

“You're a trivial part in a trivia game. Now what's your aim? A presidential campaign? Like Ross Perot? He lost it though... But he got a billion in tha bank fo' sho'!”

“This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.”

“Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.”

“Prime Minister Sharon, Prime Minister Abbas, I urge you today to end the designs of those who seek destruction, annihilation and occupation, and I urge you to have the will and the courage to begin to realize our dreams of peace, prosperity and coexistence.”

“Flow systems have two basic features (properties). There is the current that is flowing (for example, fluid, heat, mass, or information) and the design through which it flows.”

Source : Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane (2012). “Design in Nature: How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization”, p.9, Anchor

“No design works unless it embodies ideas that are held common by the people for whom the object is intended.”

“THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.”

“Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”