Capacity Quote by Stephen Nachmanovitch

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

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

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

— Katie Salen

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

— Jessica Walsh

When you're doing a play, you don't always have a practical world that you're working off of. You have to create it for yourself.

— Ben Schnetzer

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what…

— Ian Bogost

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

— Dallas Willard

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

— Greg McKeown

Play matters because it gives us a brief respite from the tyranny of apparent purpose.

— Jill Vialet

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

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

When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window.…

— Lenore Terr