Adaptive Quote by Johan Huizinga

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

Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject…

— Brian Sutton-Smith

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 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. It is the…

— Michele Cassou

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.

— Ian Bogost

This is the evolutionary value of play- play makes us flexible. By reinterpreting reality and begetting novelty, we keep from becoming rigid. Play enables…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

Play enables us to rearrange our capacities and our very identity so that they can be used in unforeseen ways

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

“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

Play is free movement within a more rigid structure.

— Katie Salen

Play is the state of mind that we can use in our creative process to our advantage.

— Jessica Walsh

The essence of play is that the sequence of actions is fluid and scattered.

— Robin Marantz Henig