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A much needed book for a world fueled on scoring systems defined / imposed by institutions and bureaucracies. Perhaps ten years too late after social media was created.
I stumbled on Nguyen's writing from his previous book about game design based on g ...more "
“People are not rational. They are rationalizing.
“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
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“He is asking to be treated like an American. A real american. Cuz honestly, when you think about American, what color do you see? white? black? We (the Chinese) have been here 200 years....the German, the Dutch, the Italian, they came here in the turn of century; they are Americans. Why doesn't this face ("yellow") register as American? Is it because we make the story too complicated?”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“This is it. The root of it all. The real history of yellow people in America. Two hundred years of being perpetual foreigners.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
“The first place you live alone, away from your family, he said, is the first place you become a person, the first place you become yourself.”
― Severance
― Severance
“Black and White always look good. A lot of it has to do with the lighting, designed to hit their faces just right. Someday you want the light to hit your face like that. To look like the hero. Or for a moment to actually be the hero”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
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