I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
When we think about play and games and the situations in which having fun is seen as an outcome, they often have… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We have been trained to think we have enormous power over the world. Whatever you dream, you can do. Anything can be… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
You don't want to be told, "Hey, do whatever you want." That's what we think of when we think of play. It's… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We have to always spread sugar on top of it in order that we can tolerate swallowing the things we're supposed to… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We're stuck in these situations with other people and our stuff and our jobs, and thinking that we can extract ourselves from… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Normally if you're dating, you're looking for compatibility, and then the moment that there's incompatibility, you're like, "Well, swipe left on that,… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
If you think about the contexts in which we talk about things being fun, often there's a certain kind of misery or… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Our ideas of happiness, gratification, contentment, satisfaction, all demand that those feelings come from within us. If you flip that on its head and… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences.… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility. — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun." — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
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… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
