Bogost Quotes

#1. Who does not have a slaughter in their conscience? Man's history is just an endless list of atrocities and we're not through with it.

- The Killer (comics).

Matz

#2. Play isn't doing what we want, but doing what we can with the materials we find along the way.

Ian Bogost

#3. America is a living body, the highways are its arteries, and the True Knot slips along them like a silent virus.

Stephen King

#4. Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren't enough to hold us steady when the challenges come ... We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life's hard times.

Billy Graham

#5. You must weather the storm and come out on the other side stronger than before.

Morgan Rhodes

#6. Boredom sends up a flare: meaning exists here, boredom beckons, but stranded meaning. Meaning that requires rescue.

Ian Bogost

#7. I can't tell anybody else how to run their life or their business, but I really believe I've got a good bead on myself.

Dolly Parton

#8. Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to thunder through my ribs, feel sweat beading on my brow ... and I know it's time to bust out those "chocolate frogs" from Harry Potter.

Shannon Celebi

#9. We're being sold a brand new idea of patriotism. It never occurred to me that patriotism had to be advertised. Patriotism is something you deeply felt. You didn't have to wear it on your lapel or show it in your window or on a bumper sticker. That kind of patriotism does not appeal to me at all.

Sam Shepard

#10. I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

Eddie Plank

#11. The German sociologist Niklas Luhmann once observed that the simple act of asking yourself, "Where did I put my keys?" performs unexpected magic: it transforms the world into a catalog of possible key locations.1 Under the couch, somewhere the dog or the baby moved

Ian Bogost

#12. If we take seriously the idea that all objects recede interminably into themselves, then human perception becomes just one among many ways that objects might relate. To put things at the center of a new metaphysics also requires us to admit that they do not exist just for us. The Computer

Ian Bogost

#13. It is impossible to examine questions we refuse to ask.

Chuck Klosterman

#14. By manipulating the physical configuration of [any situation], you make it produce a subset of the infinite pattern of [possibilities]. And even if you don't know how to play [above situation], you can still play with it.

Ian Bogost

#15. Art has done many things in human history, but in the last century especially, it has primarily tried to bother and provoke us. To force us to see things differently. Art changes. Its very purpose, we might say, is to change, and to change us along with it.

Ian Bogost

#16. You realize there are certain things that you'll never do that you always thought would be part of your future. It's a big relief to discover what you are best suited for, and it's a real advantage to be able then to focus.

Richard Hell

#17. Boredom is the secret to releasing pleasure. Once something becomes so tedious that its purpose becomes secondary to its nature, then the real work can start.

Ian Bogost

#18. fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think

Ian Bogost

#19. Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.

Joseph Stalin

#20. My daughter showed us the key: misery gives way to fun when you take an object, event, situation, or scenario that wasn't designed for you, that isn't invested in you, that isn't concerned in the slightest for your experience of it, and then treat it as if it were. ...this is what play means.

Ian Bogost

#21. games aren't the opposite of work, but experiences that set aside the ordinary purposes of things.

Ian Bogost

#22. When you don't know what to do, do the thing in front of you.

Elisabeth Elliot