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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin.

  George Washington

  Men, Evil, Brave

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1834). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.436

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• Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility.

  Salman Rushdie

  Player, Games, Choices

  Source: bigthink.com

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• An awful lot of successful technology companies ended up being in a slightly different market than they started out in. Microsoft started with programming tools, but came out with an operating system. Oracle started doing contracts for the CIA. AOL started out as an online video gaming network.

  Marc Andreessen

  Successful, Technology, Different

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• Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.

  Trip Hawkins

  Healthy, Pace, Gamer

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• There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about.

  Penn Jillette

  Spring, Arrogance, Looks

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As I said in my state of the state address, we can no longer rely on gaming and sales taxes to pay our way. Indian gaming next door in California is eroding our major industry in Nevada.

  Kenny Guinn

  California, Doors, Pay

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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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• It's nuts that we've reached a situation where representing female characters - let alone minorities - is considered "social responsibility" and not, you know, depicting half the world's population. I often feel like the gaming audience is so much more diverse than the characters represented in the games that they play.

  Neil Druckmann

  Character, Responsibility, Nuts

  Source: za.ign.com

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• In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans.

  Tim Pawlenty

  Years, Issues, Addresses

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