Raph Koster Quotes

#1. Boxing is a stepping stone just to introduce me to the audience. If I was still in Louisville, Kentucky and never was a boxer I still might get killed next week in some kind of freedom struggle and you'd ever hear the news.

Muhammad Ali

#2. Every game is winnable if you change your mind about what the prize should be and your perspective about the players at the table.

Shannon L. Alder

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. Falseness in life is the secret that makes man's inner self a rare truth; it hides from him although it's obvious to all.

Naguib Mahfouz

#7. 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

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

Raph Koster

#9. Religion makes us proud of what we have done. The Gospel makes us proud of what Jesus has done.

Timothy Keller

#10. Like most people, I woke up one day to find that everyone I knew was taking antidepressants, and since I wasn't, I figured that I must be the cause of their depression.

Christopher Moore

#11. there are none so deaf as those that will not hear.

Michael Punke

#12. 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

#13. 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

#14. I know I can be accused of sacrilege in writing about political economy in the style of a novel about love or pirates. But I confess I get a pain from reading valuable works by certain sociologists, political experts, economists and historians who write in code.

Eduardo Galeano

#15. Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather.
And it lives.

Jessica Day George

#16. I don't give a damn if I go to hell.

Madonna Ciccone

#17. 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

#18. Interesting things happen along borders - transitions - not in the middle where everything is the same.

Neal Stephenson

#19. Worldview is often confused with perception; rather, it is our perception that influences our worldview.

Asa Don Brown

#20. There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

James Patterson