Free movement Quote by Katie Salen

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

— Johan Huizinga

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

— Robin Marantz Henig

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 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

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 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

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

— Greg McKeown

Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our limited ability…

— Sarah Ruhl

Physical play is part of the game.

— Shawn Bradley

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

— Katie Salen

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

— Dallas Willard