Quotes
“I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier,
“It is by questioning the obvious that we make great progress. This is where breakthroughs come from. We need
“[In] a game where a number of individuals are involved, then the [player] taking one role must be ready to
“In Dionysus in 69 the modes of interaction reflected the idealism of a company concerned with breaking the
“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.” – Robert Bresson, Notes on the cinematographer
“Art is not the most precious manifestation of life. Art has not the celestial and universal value that people
“The video game remains an icon of its age, an emblem for the interpellation of ideological subjectivity,
“We might therefore add a third category to Roland Barthes’s classification of scriptible and lisible
“What we have in academia, in other words, is a microcosm of the American economy as a whole: a self-enriching
“Text of pleasure: the text that contents, fills, grants euphoria; the text that comes from culture and does
“[Capital] puts play in quarantine, isolates it in a special ward, as if it wanted to stop it infecting other
“What if all the bad things that media critics have been said about passivity for the past century or two are
“In the worst case, it’s possible to envisage geolocation and data aggregation apps being designed to
“Prestige is especially dangerous to the ambitious. If you want to make ambitious people waste their time
“Most good games are against the law.” – Theodore Roosevelt. Presidential Addresses and State Papers
“studies with large particle accelerators have now led us to understand that space is more like a piece of
“The ubiquity of phone booths is interesting because they are completely obsolete, unevenly distributed
“In its efforts to be “safe rather than sorry,” precaution becomes myopic. It tends to maximize only
“Ubiquitous systems lend themselves easily to—indeed, redefine—surveillance. However discrete
“Thomas Maldonado … saw the design process as a system embodying both scientific-based and intuitive-based
“Based on the discrepancies between Bill’s approach and that of other teachers, including the systems
“Mathews argues that Chungking Mansions provides a fascinating insight into “low-end” globalization:
“I think the idea of a star developer having his or her name on the box is just subscribing to the same floundering
“Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It’s a Novocaine drip to the wrist.
“The ink was hardly dry on the Citizens United decision when the Chamber of Commerce organized a covertly
“In mid-April 2011, the media reported that Chinese government has prohibited showing on TV and in theatres
“Engineers are far more important than managers at Apple — and designers are at the top of the hierarchy.
“Though numbers are, in many regards, decisive, they are not everything. Which is to suggest that there is
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