"I like to employ a form of repetition,……" — Graham Nelson
"I like to employ a form of repetition, in which the same elements recur but in different and unexpected ways. rather than being discarded as soon as they are understood or passed over."
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19 Quotes by Graham Nelson
Graham Nelson has 19 quotes on this site.
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For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out…
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This means keeping many trails open at once, inevitably requiring a fairly 'parallel' plot. This plot should be discovered rather…
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At the end of April I archived 'Curses' and Inform, and announced them on the newsgroups.
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I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all.
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I try to make puzzles range all the way from easy to hard, and to leave many open at once.
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I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the…
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If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing,…
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Players very widely disagree with me about what's hard and what's easy. and in a way, 'I won, but it…
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The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the…
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The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me…
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The time has mainly gone on getting Inform into a decent shape for public use. I suppose the plot of…
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Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn…
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More Discarded Quotes
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one of 138 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents…
— Brandon Boyd
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Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed.…
— Thomas A. Edison
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
— William Shakespeare
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I am more fond of achieving than striving. My theories must prove to be facts or be discarded as worthless.…
— Carolyn Wells
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A conceptual scheme is never discarded merely because of a few stubborn facts with which it cannot be reconciled; a…
— James Bryant Conant
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[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best…
— Carl Sagan
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For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions…
— Rajneesh
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The genetic theory of homosexuality has been generally discarded today. . . . Despite the interest in possible hormone mechanisms…
— William H. Masters
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I am convinced that an important stage of human thought will have been reached when the physiological and the psychological,…
— Ivan Pavlov
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Reason is not one tool of thought among many, it is the entire toolbox. To advocate that reason be discarded…
— George H. Smith
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said…
— Thomas Nagel
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