“Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.” MenWellsKindMayChildrenFacesFoundGamesAnimalClearBehaviorLonelyMurderBlindGolfExcuseCornersGentleGrassBelovedGentlemanTortureCategoriesElderlyFuryHackingRobberyProvocationMutteringMalediction Author:A. P. Herbert
“Common sense should tell us that positively reinforcing sadistic behavior, as these games do, cannot be good for our children.” ShouldChildrenGamesCommonBehaviorOur ChildrenBe GoodCommon SensePositivelySadistic Author:Sam Brownback
“Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed” GamesEconomicFieldsTheoryBehaviorBiology Book:Evolution and the Theory of Games Source: Evolution and the Theory of Games
“The truth is that we can overhaul our surroundings, renovate our environment, talk a new game, join a new club, far more easily than we can change the way we respond emotionally. It is easier to change behavior than feelings about that behavior.” WayFeelingsGamesChangeEnvironmentEasierTruth IsBehaviorClubsSurroundingsOur Environment Book:Turning Points Source: Turning Points
“Take stock of your thoughts and behavior. Each night ask yourself, when were you negative when you could have been positive? When did you withhold love when you might have given it? When did you play a neurotic game instead of behaving in a powerful way? Use this process to self-correct.” WayHas BeensSelfPlayUseMightNightAsksGamesGivenProcessPowerfulBehaviorNegativeCould Have BeenNeuroticOld Love Author:Marianne Williamson
“Pinball games were constrained by physical limitations, ultimately by the physical laws that govern the motion of a small metal ball. The video world knows no such bounds. Objects fly, spin, accelerate, change shape and color, disappear and reappear. Their behavior, like the behavior of anything created by a computer program, is limited only by the programmer's imagination. The objects in a video game are representations of objects. And a representation of a ball, unlike a real one, never need obey the laws of gravity unless its programmer wants it to.” KnowsWorldWantNeedsRealLawGamesImaginationObjectsColorShapesBehaviorComputerProgramBallsBoundsDisappearVideoLimitationMetalsGravityRepresentationProgrammersAccelerateReal OnesPinball Book:The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit
“Maybe you should think about the choices in your life, how someone can come and spit some kind of game to you and make you doubt every single thing that is your life, your relationship, your appearance, your job, your ambitions, your marriage, and how those thoughts can lead to choices and behavior that you never thought that you were capable of.” ThinkingShouldKindJobsChoicesGamesDoubtBehaviorAmbitionCapableAppearanceOur RelationshipSpit Author:Jurnee Smollett
“Working with the computer gives rise to many opportunities to transcend asocial behavior, because it produces exciting and visually interesting things to share, whether it's by creating video games, computer art or sharing exciting Web sites.” GivingArtOpportunityGamesInterestingShareProduceBehaviorComputerCreatingExcitingVideoSiteInteresting Things Author:Seymour Papert
“The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior. We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.” PeopleWantWellsProblemBigsRunningGamesEasyRealizingBehaviorCriticalDrivingConsumersSteamBig ProblemsLinuxPurchasingHolding Back Author:Gabe Newell
“I think you can blame certain police officers for certain behavior, you can blame certain departments for certain behavior, and power and so forth, but, ultimately, I'd say it's about us, and it's about society, and I say - even if its sounds a little controversial - put the police aside for a second. It's really not about them. It's about the game that's been created to keep the status quo going and to let the people who own it all gain from the game.” PeopleIfsThinkingLittlesCertainGamesSoundBehaviorGainsPoliceBlameDepartmentOfficersStatus QuoControversialPolice Officer Author:Oren Moverman