Katie Salen quotes

“Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.”
-- Katie Salen

Source : Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman (2004). “Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals”, p.280, MIT Press

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“Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.”
-- Katie Salen

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“A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.”
-- Katie Salen

Source : Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman (2004). “Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals”, p.60, MIT Press

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“If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org

“It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.”

“The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.”

“For any movement to gain momentum, it must start with a small action.”

Source : "The Importance of #IamMalala on November 10th" by Adam Braun, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2012.

“People think of travel, of movement, as a kind of reprieve from life. But they're wrong. Movement isn't a reprieve. There is no reprieve. Movement is our permanent state.”

“Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.”

“Each attraction, limited as it may appear to be, is a cosmic happening-it occurs within the broader pattern of things, within the endlessly complex structure which underlies our lives.”

“I assume these structures are made for siting?”

“Beware of over-confidence; especially in matters of structure.”

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”