Raph Quotes

#1. I'm coming ... but only because I have nothing better to do. - Riph Raph

J. Scott Savage

#2. Yes, King Edward VI lived only a few years, poor boy, but he lived them worthily.

Mark Twain

#3. I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

Albert Einstein

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. To begin this Practice is easy. To persevere is difficult.

Nichiren

#8. 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

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

Raph Koster

#10. Honesty in small things is not a small thing.

Robert C. Martin

#11. Rarely offstage, rarely on hiatus, Fiddler on the Roof has already been back on Broadway for four revivals, played London's West End four times, and remains among Broadway's longest-running shows ever.

Barbara Isenberg

#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. That's why we call this a dark age. It's a dark age in the sense that there are so many people on the earth who are un-attuned that they create such a level of white noise, in a sense, that it drowns out things that we'd like to see.

Frederick Lenz

#14. 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

#15. The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.

Edward Gibbon

#16. 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

#17. When we did a lot of that Motown stuff there were four of us on the front line. When we started the evening we'd start from one end of the band and just go along. The lead singer would change all the time. That's the first time that I actually managed to put it into a record.

Roy Wood

#18. If I don't offend somebody, then I'm probably not funny.

Tracy Morgan