Arousal Quote by Brian Sutton-Smith

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by…

— Ian Bogost

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

Play: It is an an activity which proceeds within certain limits of time and space, in a visible order, according to rules freely accepted,…

— Johan Huizinga

Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.

— Johan Huizinga

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

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…

— Ian Bogost

Play is the way that human beings learn about the world. That's how we discover how things work.

— Katie Salen

To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

— Michele Cassou

“To be in “play” in this way is one of our concerns to be able to escape self-conscious, intentional activity for comfortable, often purposeless…

— Fernando Flores

For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating…

— Mary Caroline Richards

Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially true of…

— David Elkind

“When an activity is done to win, to advance, to achieve—even if it’s “fun” to do so—it’s not play. It may be a wonderful…

— Bill Burnett