Adam Blinkinsop

“In the whole range of human activities, war most closely resembles a game of cards.”
― Carl von Clausewitz, On War

“[Since] a player controls every character, it is that player's intelligence that dictates the character's goals and actions, not an arbitrary number on a character sheet. Thus, in a sense, the player _is_ the character's "intelligence score"!”
― Greg Stafford, King Arthur Pendragon: Epic Roleplaying in Legendary Britain

“[If] it were possible to watch composing in the same way that one can watch painting, if composers could have _ateliers_ as did painters, then it would be clear how superfluous the music theorist is and how he is just as harmful as the art academies.”
― Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony

“Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness