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“Compared to people living only a few generations ago, we have enormously greater opportunities to have a good time, yet there is no indication that we actually enjoy life more than our ancestors did. Opportunities alone, however, are not enough. We also need the skills to make use of them.”
― Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

“Could we not put our tremendous computing power (both human and mechanical) to better use than upholding the prejudices of a bunch of aristocrats from the eighteenth century”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Like how money is just squiggles on paper or on a screen until it determines whether you can eat lunch, words are just meat twitches until they determine whether you can get a job—or whether someone will even deign to tell you where the shoe section is.”
― Gretchen McCulloch, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language

“Boredom is the opposite of learning.”
― Raph Koster, Theory of Fun for Game Design