Kurt Squire quotes
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“Players enjoy complexity – especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is “uninteresting decisions,†or games that leave them confused or with too many “easy†decisions – decisions where there is no learning to be had.”
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“There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.”
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“Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.”
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“Players enjoy complexity – especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is “uninteresting decisions,” or games that leave them confused or with too many “easy” decisions – decisions where there is no learning to be had.”
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“Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.”
Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
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Source : Aaron Copland (2011). “What to Listen For in Music”, p.23, Penguin
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“In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.”
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“Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.”
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