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> [If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/if-you-think-of-play-as-being-in-things-there-are-things-that-are/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2eb/ian-bogost-9716_can-do_if-you-think-of-play-as-being-in-things_1621746.jpg)

## More by Ian Bogost

> [I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/i-think-the-most-important-way-to-understand-play-is-that-it-s-this/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/once-you-get-yourself-on-that-path-where-you-re-willing-to-find/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/our-ideas-of-happiness-gratification-contentment-satisfaction-all/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/when-we-use-this-word-fun-it-sort-of-bangs-up-the-ordinary-and-the/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/we-think-we-want-enjoyment-and-that-enjoyment-is-incompatible-with/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [You can experience play at work, not because you're messing around or wasting time or something, but because you're looking really deeply and seriously…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/you-can-experience-play-at-work-not-because-you-re-messing-around-or/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/actually-a-lot-of-the-supposedly-serious-and-meaningful-and/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/i-think-a-lot-of-the-misery-that-people-experience-comes-from-that/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/there-s-just-an-enormous-vast-universe-of-possible-intrigue-out-there/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/generally-speaking-when-people-use-the-word-fun-it-s-like-a/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Wouldn't we all rather have the possibility of finding pleasure and delight in literally anything we might encounter? Instead of assuming that actually there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/wouldn-t-we-all-rather-have-the-possibility-of-finding-pleasure-and/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/fun-has-to-do-with-habitual-activities-but-then-also-terrifically/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/irony-keeps-reality-at-a-distance-it-has-become-our-primary-method/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/play-isn-t-you-being-clever-or-finding-a-trick-or-finding-a-way-of/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

> [To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ian-bogost/to-me-being-able-to-find-gratification-in-more-venues-rather-than/)

[Ian Bogost](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ian-bogost/)

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