Steven Heller Quotes

#1. When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.' page 21

Jane McGonigal

#2. I feel just like a purple Pikmin.

Reggie Fils-Aime

#3. Giving up isn't a deed. It is 'discontinuity' of a deed.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#4. The future is not really the future. It's just a present that looks good.

Steven Heller

#5. Graphic designers should be literate in graphic design history.
Being able to design well is not always enough. Knowing the roots
of design is necessary to avoid reinvention, no less inadvertent plagiarism.

Steven Heller

#6. Lysenkoism: A forlorn attempt not merely to colonize the botanical kingdom, but to instill a proper sense of the puritan work ethic and the merits of self-improvement.

J.G. Ballard

#7. That precious fruit which all men eagerly go searching for on many different boughs will give,today, peace to your hungry soul.

Dante Alighieri

#8. Humility is understanding gratefulness oppose to self-praise & accepting envy as the answer to your actions of excellence.

Ace Antonio Hall

#9. Typefaces are to the written word what different dialects are to different languages.

Steven Heller

#10. When you're living in the moment, you're living in the moment; whatever that moment is, that's your reality. Everything else is a myth.

Steven Heller

#11. I only know that I can't live without flight. Without sky and moist, breathing earth.

Sophie Jordan

#12. The logo is an identifier but it's also something that stands-in for who you are.

Steven Heller

#13. But one of the most fantastic things about Ireland and Dublin is that the pubs are like Paris and the cafe culture. And Dublin, in many ways, is a pub culture.

Hugh Dancy