Depressing Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ian Bogost

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

— 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.…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ian Bogost

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

— 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…

— 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."

— 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…

— 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…

— Ian Bogost