Infinite Games Quotes

#1. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility BY JAMES P. CARSE

Daniel H. Pink

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

James P. Carse

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

Maurice Blondel

#4. I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Leo Buscaglia

#5. I grew up in New York, and for the first ten years of my life, we lived across from the Metropolitan Museum. When I was an adult, I moved back to that neighborhood and lived there again.

M.J. Rose

#6. I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

Daniel Libeskind

#7. Man has made such a mighty struggle to feel at home on the face of the earth, without even yet succeeding.

D.H. Lawrence

#8. Mr. Guppy suspects everybody ... of entertaining ... Sinister designs upon him ... he in the most ingenious manner takes infinite pains to counterplot, where there is no plot; and plays the deepest games of chess without any adversary

Charles Dickens

#9. Initially charged with assaulting a police officer and resisting arrest I was held for 36 hours, was beaten by cops and made to stand spread eagled against the cell wall for 12 hours with no food or water, until I collapsed. Everyone was strip searched on the way in.

John Blair

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

Jim Morrison

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

James P. Carse

#12. It is, therefore, this fluidity that presents us with an unavoidable challenge: how to contain the serious within the truly playful; that is, how to keep all our finite games in infinite play.

James P. Carse

#13. The true secret of success in the investment and speculative world is not so much which good securities to buy, but rather which investments to avoid.

Morton Shulman

#14. 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

#15. Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Hans Eysenck

#16. 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

#17. The pictures are there, and you just take them.

Robert Capa