Computer Games Quotes

• I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Art, Games, Literature

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• Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

  Kristen Wilson

  Funny, Running, Humor

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• Computers had their origin in military cryptography-in a sense, every computer game represents the commandeering of a military code-breaking apparatus for purposes of human expression.

  Austin Grossman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

  Austin Grossman (2013). “You”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games.

  Toyo Ito

  Running, Children, Games

  "Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July 26, 2009.

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• The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

  Shigeru Miyamoto

  New Experiences, Games, People

  "The Year In Violence" by Michael Thomsen, www.ign.com. December 18, 2007.

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• I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

  Demetri Martin

  Character, Men, Games

  "Demetri Martin. Person". Documentary, Comedy, Music, www.imdb.com. January 14, 2007.

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• Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre.

  Andy Serkis

  Games, People, Age

  "Andy Serkis on Enslaved and acting in video games". Interview with Jack Arnott, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2010.

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• We cannot and will not ban the creation of violent video games. But, we can prevent the distribution of these disturbing games to children, where their effects can be negative

  Herb Kohl

  Children, Games, Negative

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• Video games and computers have become babysitters for kids.

  Taylor Kitsch

  Kids, Games, Video

  "No Way But Up". Interview with Scott Quill, www.menshealth.com. 2007.

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• Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

  Freeman A. Hrabowski III

  Girl, Boys, Technology

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• I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.

  Gareth Bale

  Games, Play, People

  "Gareth Bale's best friend ditches job and girlfriend to join footballer at Real Madrid" by Nick Dorman, www.mirror.co.uk. September 8, 2013.

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• Although I played a lot of computer games in my 20s, now I have children of my own I hate them with a passion.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Children, Hate, Passion

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• Indeed, being a beginner is very difficult right now. Book publishers are in a crisis, sales are dwindling, and publishing houses are losing money, doing their best to survive. It's a sign of the times, the emergence of new kinds of entertainment -- there's nothing we can do about it. I don't think books will perish for good. They could become less widespread, though, falling even further behind movies and computer games. But we shouldn't be afraid of this, because books will always remain the entertainment of choice for intelligent people, of whom there are still many in this world.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Book, Fall, Intelligent

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• Computer games are like any other form of media and entertainment - you have to exercise some moderation. In the same way you can invest a lot of time in a computer game, you can invest a lot of time in watching TV or browsing the Web. So it's an issue of recognizing that this is something you should consume in moderation.

  Frank Pearce

  Exercise, Media, Games

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It may have once been true that computer games encouraged us to interact more with machines than with each other. But if you still think of gamers as loners, then you’re not playing games.

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Playing Games, Loner

  Jane McGonigal (2011). “Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World”, p.63, Penguin

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• Always trust computer games.

  Ridley Pearson

  Games, Computer

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• Ideas are cheap. A dime a dozen, as they say. It's the implementation that's important! The trick isn't just to have a computer game idea, but to actually create it!

  Scott Adams

  Games, Ideas, Design

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• If you look at the whole world now it's just computer games, graphic novels, film, TV spinoffs, spinoffs of spinoffs like Deadpool spinning off of Wolverine. So I think that any kind of smart producer looks at all of those bases. Once it comes down to the integrity of it audiences are very smart, they smell that they're just kind of being played.

  Sam Worthington

  Integrity, Smart, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• Although I am not averse to wasting a few hours playing computer games, I have never tried my hand at Doom. Judging by sales figures and testimonials, playing the game has to be an infinitely preferable experience to watching this pathetic excuse for a movie.

  James Berardinelli

  Hands, Games, Judging

  "Doom (United States/Czech Republic, 2005)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2005.

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• I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and it's dark outside and the whole day has gone by and I don't know where it's gone. But there's bad days, too. Where I struggle and sweat and a half hour creeps by and I've written three words. And half a day creeps by and I've written a sentence and a half and then I quit for the day and play computer games. You know, sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you. [Laughs]

  George R. R. Martin

  Morning, Coffee, Struggle

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• The next level. As though dating were a computer game.

  Janette Rallison

  Games, Dating, Next Level

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• Pen-and-paper role-playing is live theater and computer games are television. People want the convenience and instant gratification of turning on the TV rather than getting dressed up and going out to see a live play. In the same way, the computer is a more immediately accessible way to play games.

  Gary Gygax

  Games, Play, People

  "Dungeon Masters in Cyberspace" by Seth Schiesel, www.nytimes.com. February 27, 2006.

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• To me there is no more depressing sight than a five-year-old staring at a screen, unsmiling, mouse in hand. Besides whatever dreadful things this prolonged exposure to screens is doing to their brains, computer games tend to be solitary affairs, and produce little laughter.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Depressing, Laughter, Sight

  "The joy of traditional games" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• I treat business a bit like a computer game. I count money as points. I'm doing really well: making lots of money and lots of points.

  Michael Dunlop

  Games, Entrepreneur, Computer

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• Our kids are actually doing what we told them to do when they sit in front of that TV all day or in front of that computer game all day. The society is telling kids unconsciously that nature's in the past. It really doesn't count anymore, that the future is in electronics, and besides, the bogeyman is in the woods.

  Richard Louv

  Kids, Past, Games

  "Saving Kids from 'Nature Deficit Disorder'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. May 25, 2005.

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