Gaming Quotes - Page 2

• Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Animal, Gambling

  Charles Lamb (1835). “Essays of Elia”, p.40

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• All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Voting, Moral, Vote

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal.

  Bing Gordon

  New Normal, Should, Ceo

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• We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.

  Larry Wall

  Playing Games, Compromise, Programming

  Usenet article, 1991.

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• I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night.

  Felicia Day

  Night, Games, Surfing

  Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'.

  Marie Lu

  Thinking, And Love, Legends

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• Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Gambling, Tables, Fortune

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• I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that.

  Mark Pincus

  Media, Firsts, Evolution

  "Zynga CEO Mark Pincus on the future of the company: part one". Interview with Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. August 1, 2012.

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• I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group.

  Gary Gygax

  Play, Groups, Links

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• When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

  Gary Gygax

  Role Playing, Roles, Leisure

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• Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry.

  Mark McKinnon

  Gun, Hollywood, Republican

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• Many young people adopt pleasures for which they have not the least taste, only because they are called by that name.... You mustallow that drunkenness, which is equally destructive to body and mind, is a fine pleasure. Gaming, that draws you into a thousand scraps, leaves you penniless, and gives you the air and manners of an outrageous madman, is another most exquisite pleasure, is it not? As to running after women, the consequences of that vice are only the loss of one's nose, the total destruction of health, and, not unfrequently, the being run through the body.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Running, Drinking, Loss

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• At River Belle we don't just listen to our customers, we also try to anticipate their demands and be the first to market with the features that become industry standards. This extended variety of games is a huge step toward creating a one-stop gaming experience that makes a world of difference for our players.

  Tim Johnson

  Player, Rivers, Differences

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• Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Gambling, Habit, Disposition

  Thomas Jefferson (1900). “The Life and Writings of ...”

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• In order to expand the gaming population, it is taken for granted that we need to offer games to satisfy veteran gamers. At the same time, I believe that we need to make a new proposal, so that those who do not play games can say, 'I can do it' and, 'I want to touch it.'

  Satoru Iwata

  Believe, Taken, Order

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• Every aspect of our lives are now connected: health, travel, sports, gaming, our homes, our cars - everything.

  Gary Shapiro

  Sports, Home, Car

  Source: skift.com

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• I've always played games. I've been brought up around gaming.

  Asa Butterfield

  Games

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I love the melody of an unknown language, the strange food, all the surprises of a strange town, and my own impatience and curiosity ... I love traveling as others love the gaming table; I anticipate a new place as others anticipate the next number to come up.

  Elsa Triolet

  Travel, Numbers, Curiosity

  Elsa Triolet (1947). “A Fine of 200 Francs”

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• As a child growing up, you never thought about being in a videogame, then to have a game of your own and be lucky enough to set the bar with it in the gaming world, it's a dream come true.

  Tiger Woods

  Dream, Children, Growing Up

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. October 13, 2006.

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• My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions.

  Ernest Cline

  Book, Character, People

  "Author Ernie Cline Was Told Video Games Would Rot His Brain, But Who Holds the High Score Now?". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. July 10, 2015.

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• I'm not a big gamer myself. I've (become) increasingly interested in games. And I certainly am passionate about, about storytelling in gaming. And, and the marriage of, you know, immersive characters, with gaming.

  Andy Serkis

  Character, Games, Passionate

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always thought that one of the things that the Internet and the gaming world permits as a narrative technique is to not tell the story from beginning to end - to tell stories sideways, to give alternative possibilities that the reader can, in a way, choose between.

  Salman Rushdie

  Giving, Technique, Alternatives

  Source: bigthink.com

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• There is no gaming table in the world where loaded dice are tolerated, no athletic field where men must not start fair. Yet Mr. Rockefeller has systematically played with loaded dice, and it is doubtful if there has ever been a time since 1872 when he has run a race with a competitor and started fair.

  Ida Tarbell

  Running, Business, Men

  "The History of the Standard Oil Company". Book by Ida Tarbell (originally serialized in nineteen parts in McClure's Magazine), 1904.

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• A sort of angry populism here in the UK and across Europe, a sort of anti-political mood and what then steps into that place? In one episode [of Black Mirror] you won't have seen, there's a very simple gaming gadget that turns out to be a monstrous idea, which I suspect we will end up doing for real.

  Charlie Brooker

  Real, Simple, Mirrors

  "The Man Behind Netflix’s “Black Mirror” Is Maybe a Little Too Good at Predicting the Future". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries with the hopes of increasing their wealth; so that avarice itself is so far from securing us against its temptations that it often betrays the more thoughtless and giddy part of mankind into them.

  Henry Fielding

  Gambling, Luxury, Temptation

  Henry Fielding (1988). “An Enquiry Into the Causes of the Late Increase of Robbers and Related Writings”, p.92, Wesleyan University Press

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