“Some of the greatest innovations have come from people who only succeeded because they were too dumb to know that what they were doing was impossible.”
― The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
― The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
“We need to value the consequences of our actions more than the cleverness of our ideas.”
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
― Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It
“In design, darkness creates a frisson that excites and challenges.”
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“I felt what we always feel when someone dies–the sad awareness, now futile, of how little it would have cost us to have been more loving. One forgets that one is a dead man conversing with dead men.”
― The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
― The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
“Some subtle influence passed from him to me, and for the first time in my life I saw in the plain woodland the wonder I had always looked for, and always missed.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
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