“Killing is fundamentally in our nature because over the eons of human evolution murder was so surprisingly beneficial in the intense game of reproductive competition.” HumansGamesEvolutionMurderCompetitionKillingIntenseBeneficialHuman Evolution Author:David Buss
“Evolutionary game theory is a way of thinking about evolution at the phenotypic level when the fitnesses of particular phenotypes depend on their frequencies in the population.” ThinkingWayGamesLevelsParticularTheoryDependsEvolutionPopulationFrequencyWay Of Thinking Book:Evolution and the Theory of Games Source: Evolution and the Theory of Games
“If you look at the evolution of games from console to Internet to mobile, and look at social networking from Web to mobile, everything is fragmenting.” IfsLooksGamesSocialEvolutionInternetMobileNetworkingSocial NetworkingConsoleSocial Network Author:Chris DeWolfe
“No human mind may measure the blessings conferred by the game of base ball on the soldiers of the Civil War. It had its earliest evolution when soldiers, North and South, were striving to forget their foes by cultivating, through this grand game, fraternal friendships with comrades in arms.” MindHumansMayWarGamesForgetArmsEvolutionBlessingBallsSouthStriveSoldierCivil WarHuman MindFoeComradeCultivatingNorth And SouthFraternal Author:Albert Goodwill Spalding
“As the haves and have-nots split further and further apart, destabilization ultimately leads to revolution, not evolution. If we're playing the evolution vs. revolution game, we are closer to revolution than we are to evolution in my concept.” IfsGamesRevolutionEvolutionConceptsSplitsHaves And Have Nots Author:Ram Dass
“There are a couple of watersheds in human evolution. Most people are comfortable thinking about tool use and language use as watersheds. But the ability to play non-zero-sum games was another watershed.” PeopleThinkingHumansPlayUseGamesLanguageAbilityEvolutionCoupleComfortableToolsZeroHuman EvolutionZero Sum GameWatersheds Author:Jonathan Haidt
“We've kind of grown up in a post-Star Wars era, and what Star Wars did to cinema, in terms of an explosion of that kind of blockbuster culture. It's thrown up a generation of geeks. With the evolution of computer games and the Internet, that's all impacted on us as a generation, and affected the creative element of that generation enormously. So whereas the different schools of filmmaking...” KindDifferentWarSchoolCultureGamesStarsTermCreativeGenerationsEvolutionInternetElementsComputerErasPostsCinemaThrownAffectedFilmmakingGeekExplosionsBlockbusterComputer Games Author:Simon Pegg
“In the evolution of the [The Hunger Games] movie, Gary [Ross] and I talked a lot about tonal bandwidth and making sure that the look and feel and style and choices of the movie stayed within a certain consistent bandwidth.” FeelsLooksCertainChoicesGamesStyleEvolutionHungerConsistentGaryBandwidth Author:Nina Jacobson
“Man is a megalomaniac among animals-if he sees mountains he will try to imitate them by pyramids, and if he sees some grand process like evolution, and thinks it would be at all possible for him to be in on that game, he would irreverently have to have his whack at that too. That daring megalomania of his-has it not brought him to his present place?” IfsThinkingMenTryingWould BeScienceGamesProcessAnimalEvolutionMountainDaringPyramidsMegalomaniaMegalomaniacs Author:Jacques Loeb