“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
“To design is to influence.”
― 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
“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
“There was a movie called Maple recently. I don’t know if you’ve seen it. At the end, an adult and a child stand in front of the grave of a Red Guard who had died during the faction civil wars. The child asks the adult, ‘Are they heroes?’ The adult says no. The child asks, ‘Are they enemies?’ The adult again says no. The child asks, ‘Then who are they?’ The adult says, ‘History.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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