Koster Quotes

#1. However things might change around us, we would always be together.

Garth Stein

#2. I sympathize far more with heavier people than I ever will with thin. I'll never be thin. Let's be honest.

Kevin Smith

#3. Violet Eden!" Steph said sternly, sucking me out of my trance. "We have your dad's Amex, a green light and no specified limit." Her mock rebuke morphed into a devious grin. "What more could a girl want as a birthday present?

Jessica Shirvington

#4. Only where there is language is there world.
- Martin Heidegger

Louis Koster

#5. Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [ ... ] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe.

Raph Koster

#6. Time flies; but does not land. Eternity does not have an airport and does not rest.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#7. Being a Christian is more like falling in love than understanding a series of ideas.

Donald Miller

#8. My whole problem is that all of my favorite things at Thanksgiving are the starches, and everyone is trying to go low-carb this year, even a green vegetable has carbs in it.

Ted Allen

#9. Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.

John Cleese

#10. There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.

Joanna Lohman

#11. It's about who owns the servers. The servers that store your metrics. The servers that shout the ads. The servers that transmit your chat. The servers that geofence your every movement.

Raph Koster

#12. I recognised love. It forms like a weather pattern.

David Mitchell

#13. Allen Anderson speaks from the heart about subjects he loves; this enthralls audiences everywhere. His outlook is realistic but invariably positive, encouraging everyone to expect the best. Audience feedback is replete with superlatives.

Henry Koster

#14. To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.

Halsey

#15. It's time to wake up to the fact that you're just another avatar in someone else's MMO. Worse: From where they stand, all-powerful Big Data analysts that they are, you look an awful lot like a bot.

Raph Koster

#16. Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.

Viswanathan Anand

#17. He's not my god."

"Mine either. Who are you to judge me?"

"Gods should always be judged.

Michael LaRocca

#18. That's what games are, in the end. Teachers. Fun is just another word for learning.

Raph Koster

#19. flooding the world with a bounty of Froot Loops, Lucky Charms, and Count Chocula.

Rick Riordan

#20. A careful fake is better than the truth. The truth lacks realism.

R.M. Koster

#21. The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal.

Raph Koster

#22. When do you do things for the love of it? Always. If you're not feeling that, go do something else. Life is too short.

Raph Koster

#23. Fun from games arises out of mastery. It arises out of comprehension. It is the act of solving puzzles that makes games fun. In other words, with games, learning is the drug.

Raph Koster

#24. There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance. Without that little chemical twist in our brains that makes us enjoy learning new things, we might be more like the sharks and ants of the world.

Raph Koster