“A writer from ESPN magazine once described me as the world's largest eleven-year-old. That's true. I ride my Sea-Doo jet ski, play putt-putt golf, go to water parks, and act silly. On the bottom floor of my house in Beverly Hills, I have video games, a pool table, a Pepsi machine, and all the things they have in arcades. I drive go-karts, at least the ones I can fit in. I karate-chop my friends when they come over, like the Kato dude in the Pink Panther movies.” WorldYearsI CanPlayGamesHouseWaterSeaFitBasketballMy FriendsMachinesTablesGolfBottomSillyVideoMagazinesHillsParksPoolElevenJetKarateSkisPanthersBeverly HillsPepsiEspnArcadesPink PantherPool Table Author:Shaquille O'Neal
“Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy” EconomyMachinesVideoConsumersGambling Author:John Warren Kindt
“Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines” EconomyStudyMachinesVideoAustraliaGamblingDrains Author:John Warren Kindt
“Therefore 5,000 new video gambling machines costs the economy 5,000 lost jobs each year” YearsJobsLostEconomyCostMachinesVideoGambling Author:John Warren Kindt
“Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.” BodyHandsEyeSexQualityMachinesVideoSuitsDataCorporationsOrgansReplacedGlovesDisqualification Author:Paul Virilio
“When I'm panicked about my love handles, I go to the YMCA and get obsessed with Kid Rock videos as I'm on the running machine.” RunningKidsRocksMachinesHandleVideoObsessedYmca Author:Emily Mortimer
“The stock market to me was like a video game. When it went off, it was like turning the game off. It wasn't something I'd think about until I'd turn the machine on again.” ThinkingTurnsGamesMachinesVideo Author:Jo Nesbo