March 2011
1 post
“If you want to ‘get in touch with your feelings,’ fine — talk to yourself; we...”
– William Safire
November 2010
12 posts
2 tags
“Play is manipulation that indulges curiosity.”
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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“To truly understand game design is to understand an incredibly complex web of...”
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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“Surprise is a crucial part of all entertainment — it is at the root of humor,...”
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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“I hate books, for they only teach people to talk about what they don’t...”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Q1. Games are entered willfully.
Q2. Games have goals.
Q3. Games have...”
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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“A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude.”
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Harvard Mark
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“When you know how to listen, everybody is the guru.”
– Ram Dass
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“Procedural rhetoric is a general name for the practice of authoring arguments...”
– Ian Bogost, Persuasive Games: The Expressive Power of Videogames
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“There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something!”
– Thomas Edison
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“People who come up with clever solutions are almost always the same people who...”
– Jesse Schell, The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
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“It does not make much difference what a person studies. All knowledge is...”
– Hypatia
October 2010
13 posts
1 tag
“What Zynga understood is that you need to go where the consumers are, capture...”
– Mark Suster
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“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And...”
– Salvador Dali
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“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
– Henry Ford
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“Ideas find people to spread them. The more an idea spreads and reaches all areas...”
– Mark Earls, HERD: How to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature
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“Technology that appears in your life between birth and your 15th birthday is not...”
– Douglas Adams
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“Whenever you come to define your target audience, it pays to bear in mind that...”
– Mark Earls, HERD: How to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature
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“1. Throw the channels away. Don’t think about what you’re going to do or say or...”
– Mark Earls, HERD: How to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde
“After becoming an active part of the Nike+ experience, everything else will just...”
– Joselin Linder and Gabe Zichermann, Game-Based Marketing
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“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Albert Einstein
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“mass behaviour arises from the interaction between individuals and not as the...”
– Mark Earls, HERD: How to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature
“The four general player types are represented by the following motivations:...”
– Joselin Linder and Gabe Zichermann, Game-Based Marketing
“…a holistic Funware design (points, levels, badges, leaderboards...”
– Joselin Linder and Gabe Zichermann, Game-Based Marketing
September 2010
5 posts
1 tag
“Fatigue is the best pillow.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round...”
– Apple Commercial, 1997
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“If you’re aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious...”
– Chris Dixon
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“I have spent ten hours playing Farmville. I am a smart person and wouldn’t spend...”
– Jesse Schell, Dice talk
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt, “The Man In The Arena” Speech at the Sorbonne
August 2010
3 posts
“If you can’t solve a problem, it’s because you’re playing by...”
– Paul Arden
“Without having a goal it’s difficult to score.”
– Paul Arden
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“The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that...”
– William Feather
July 2010
5 posts
3 tags
“The principle for mastering the groundswell: concentrate on the relationships,...”
– Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, Groundswell
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“Individuals do not do what they do largely on their own volition, but through...”
– Mark Earls, HERD: How to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature
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“We are a we-species who do individually what we do largely because of each...”
– Mark Earls, HERD: How to change mass behaviour by harnessing our true nature
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you...”
– Mark Twain
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Monocle: If you could do some single thing to improve significantly the quality of life in cities, what would it be?
Jan Gehl: I'd make the Human Rights committee of the UN pass a law that every city should treat its people as well as it treat its cars.
June 2010
9 posts
“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“First, they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you...”
– Gandhi
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience- well, that comes from poor...”
– A. A. Milne
“When your ideas are known by many, they are more likely to be refined, and you...”
– Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen
“Although it is part of the creative’s essence to constantly generate new...”
– Scott Belsky, Making Ideas Happen
“Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.”
– Thomas Edison
“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle.”
– Plato
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people...”
– Dale Carnegie
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“If you go to bed three days in a row without some genuinely new ideas wandering...”
– Tom Peters, The Little Big Things
April 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
– Phil Daniels
