Infinite Game Quotes

#1. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.

James P. Carse

#2. Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of generosity on behalf of all.

Paul Hawken

#3. Finite games can be played within an infinite game, but an infinite game cannot be played within a finite game.

James P. Carse

#4. Nature, it seems, is the popular name
for milliards and milliards and milliards
of particles playing their infinite game
of billiards and billiards and billiards.

Piet Hein

#5. What technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an 'infinite game.' ... A finite game is played to win, and an infinite game is played to keep playing.

Kevin Kelly

#6. Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

Iris Murdoch

#7. But if right now I had to choose between Kade or a serial killer having me, well, Jack the Ripper, c'mon

Harper Bentley

#8. I think that people like the idea that fans are sort of slightly eccentric and strange, but generally I've just found them very creative and warm and cheerful.

Peter Capaldi

#9. The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

Jim Morrison

#10. Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside the game: break through limits: transcend: improve: win.

David Foster

#11. It was a game she sometimes played, ever since she learned about the theory of infinite parallels, the idea that a person's path through life wasn't really a line, but a tree, every decision a divergent branch, resulting in a divergent you.

Victoria Schwab

#12. Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be - or to be indistinguishable from - self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time.

Neal Stephenson

#13. And that was it: infinite loop; no alt-tab out. You could force close, shut down the computer, start all over and run it again, and the game would still lock up and freeze at the same place. "Where's Popper?" No cheat code. Game over. There was no way past that moment.

Donna Tartt

#14. Accept your own and be yourself!

Elijah Muhammad

#15. Infinite power just isn't very interesting, no matter what game you're playing. It's much more fun when you have a limited tool set to use against the odds.

Markus Persson

#16. It has taken many years for the game of go to initiate me into the freedom of slipping between yesterday, today, and tomorrow. From one stone to the next, from black to white, the thousands of stones have ended up building a bridge far into the infinite expanse of China.

Shan Sa

#17. I would do anything to save our love because our love is my life

Michelle Magorian

#18. To will nothing, then, is ..looking ..for that infinite virtuosity that always enters into the game and always runs off

Maurice Blondel

#19. I love mathematics ... principally because it is beautiful; because man has breathed his spirit of play into it, and because it has given him his greatest game the encompassing of the infinite.

Rozsa Peter

#20. He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

Noorilhuda

#21. I was lucky enough to get to see guys like Bugs Henderson, Jimmy Wallace, all those great Texas blues players.

Dimebag Darrell

#22. Soft as the early morning breeze of May,
which heralds dawn, rich with the grass and flowers,
spreading in waves their breathing fragrances,
I felt a breeze strike soft upon my brow:
I felt a wing caress it, I am sure,
I sensed the sweetness of ambrosia.

Dante Alighieri

#23. I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

Elia Kazan

#24. But I don't believe in organised politics, organised religion, organised music, organised anything.

Link Wray

#25. Good or bad is a matter of perspective. I met an immortal hunami once, a man called William Shakespeare, who wrote that there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

Michael Scott

#26. I couldn't fathom it myself, but I guessed that happy endings came in all shapes and sizes.

Ingrid Law

#27. A game like 'Myst' may be a gorgeous slide show that preserves its beauty at the expense of speed. A game like 'Doom' sacrifices almost everything for action. But the eye soon adjusts: the degree of detail more than adequately conveys infinite claustrophobic labyrinths populated by howling monsters.

Marc Laidlaw

#28. I guess, a lot of people think is a long time between albums. It was needed for me. I went through a lot to get the album [Wild Things'] finished. I actually went through a lot to even get the album started.

Ladyhawke

#29. Walt had a marvelous intuition. And because he understood people very well, liked them and had great respect for people, there was nothing cynical about Walt.

John Hench

#30. There is no War on Terrorism; it is The Great Game speeded up. The difference is the rampant nature of the superpower, ensuring infinite dangers for us all.

John Pilger

#31. And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

Bjorn Ulvaeus