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The game took weeks to play. During that time, all cats had to be banished from the house to prevent them from disrupting the game pieces.
“I cannot accept that a theory of prime importance, which describes processes which everybody believes to be elementary, can be right if it is too complicated, i.e., if it describes these elementary processes as being horribly complex and sophisticated ones.”
― Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
― Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
“We need to be aware of the ways that the games encoded in our social and technological systems warp our preferences, manufacture our desires, contaminate our attitudes toward one another, and ultimately influence our life choices.”
― Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
― Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World
“we can’t read our own label from inside the jar.”
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
― The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth
“the knowledge underlying civilization is so widespread today that complete annihilation would be more probable than a long period of darkness followed by recovery.”
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
― Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
“The machine that made pin making automatic, and rendered all the tasks described by Smith obsolete at a stroke (though adding different ones) was a device that a New York machinist created and put into production in a pin factory of his own about fifty years after Smith’s description.”
― The Economy of Cities
― The Economy of Cities
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