When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback… — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
“The only true solutions to complex systemic problems are piecemeal, multi-pronged answers, and they will vary wildly from forest to desert, from… — John Bierce Copy Share Image
I don't have answers for anybody else. What I know is that internal complexity makes for superficiality. There's never essentially a pure… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
The vulgarization of Darwinism that sees the "struggle for existence" as nothing but the competition for some environmental resource in short supply… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
When you're younger, it's all theoretical. It's all potential. As you get older, it becomes actual, and your life gets filled with… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The reality is that there is an enormous value to gut-check instinctive decision-making in the world that is not hampered by reams… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that… — Charles Bartlett Johnson Copy Share Image
If we ever find out how the brain works, with all its complexity, then we will be able to build a machine… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
People have a hard time accepting free-market economics for the same reason they have a hard time accepting evolution: it is counterintuitive.… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
There is nothing “still” in the remarkably visceral poems of Alexander Long's third collection, Still Life, and nothing is at rest in… — David St. John Copy Share Image
“Finally, I had held up examples of Goldhagen's inflammatory language and suggested that he had missed the essence of what Primo Levi… — Erna Paris Copy Share Image
We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
“The cell has biological machines at work in it that have separate functions that all have to operate together simultaneously in order… — Calvin W. Allison Copy Share Image
Over time, I started becoming more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort… — Moby Copy Share Image
The music began, passages of immense technical complexity fluidly bridging Caravaggio’s chiaroscuro with Renoir’s impressionism. The gloom and shadows of claustrophobic chambers… — Ella Leya Copy Share Image
Being a food show and being me, I always kicked it up a notch, which means I would always elevate the spice… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
ASTONISHING, said Death. REALLY ASTONISHING. LET ME PUT FORWARD ANOTHER SUGGESTION: THAT YOU ARE NOTHING MORE THAN A LUCKY SPECIES OF APE… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It is time to create new social science departments that reflect the breadth and complexity of the problems we face as well… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I'm not saying anything that's unknown, but movies are always cut down and there's a lot of complexity within the film that… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
There are some kinds of Christianity that insist you have to believe literally in doctrine. The Gnostic gospels open out the complexity… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
People are tempted to politicize the fact that I paint black figures, and the complexity of this is an essential part of… — Lynette Yiadom-Boakye Copy Share Image
Whatever the composition of a firm, if it is to do good business it should be a place where everyone is encouraged… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Once everyone is connected to everyone and everything else, nothing matters anymore. If everyone in the world is your Facebook friend, then… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
The wisdom of literature is quite antithetical to having opinions. 'Nothing is my last word about anything,' said Henry James. Furnishing opinions,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For the book to succeed, it has to have equal parts ugliness and beauty, counterpoints adding up to emotional complexity. To me,… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
Good people can do terrible things, and that's what life is all about, the complexities and grey areas. And often characters aren't… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
When Hillary Clinton talks about adding more restrictions and complexity to our financial system, as she did in her economic policy speech,… — Carly Fiorina Copy Share Image
I've done a number of films. I've been around this. I think the biggest challenge is just getting the script right, the… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Some men spend a lifetime in an attempt to comprehend the complexities of women. Others pre-occupy themselves with somewhat simpler tasks, such… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“In the future, the great division will be between those who have trained themselves to handle these complexities and those who are… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Who values the past lives sentimentally. Who optimizes the present grabs opportunity. Who balances time creates harmony. Who disturbs harmony leads complexity.… — Angelica Hopes Copy Share Image
If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer,… — John Sculley Copy Share Image
In a learning organization, leaders are designers, stewards, and teachers. They are responsible for building organizations where people continually expand their capabilities… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
It is unmatched in its ability to think, to communicate, and to reason. Most striking of all, it has a unique awareness… — Peter Coveney Copy Share Image
When the next big problem comes online, be it the Euro crisis, nuclear proliferation, an overstretched Internet, a killer flu, or any… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler. Remarking on the complexity… — Alfonso X of Castile Copy Share Image
