Oliver Roeder > Quotes

“The real world may from time to time offer us a chance to solve an elegant problem, and the satisfaction that comes with it, but games offer this chance constantly.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“There’s a reason people have been playing Go for thousands and thousands of years. It’s not just that they want to understand Go. It’s that they want to understand what understanding is. Maybe that’s truly what it means to be a human.” What does it mean, then, when a computer understands this game better than any of us?”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“Successful players take what the dice provide, then make the best play and move on. This is also a valuable, if difficult, life lesson.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“thousands of years. It’s not just that they want to understand Go. It’s that they want to understand what understanding is. Maybe that’s truly what it means to be a human.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“a game is “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“the rules of Go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play Go.”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“There’s a reason people have been playing Go for thousands and”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History

“Win or lose . . . we’re in the fuckin’ greatest game ever played. —PETE ROSE, DURING GAME SIX OF THE 1975 WORLD SERIES (HE LOST)”
― Oliver Roeder, Seven Games: A Human History