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Awarding points for real-world actions does not invest us in those actions, it invests us in the rewards.
— George Kokoris, Burning North » Achievement Unlocked: Read The Article Header
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The frontier between ‘the bulk of the work’ and ‘fine-tuning the details’ remains in flux for a long time; its position is the object of intense negotiation. To simplify its task, every group tends to think that its own role is most important, and that the next group in the chain just needs to concern itself with the technical details, or to apply the principles that the first group has defined.
— Bruno Latour, Aramis, or The love of technology
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¶Amateurs talk about tactics. Professionals talk about logistics.
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I think it’s a significant reason why people get less out of reading for the web: there’s always more… the beautiful thing about [magazine] issues is that they begin and end.
— David Cole, Metagames and Containers
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I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
— Marcel Duchamp, Marcel Duchamp quotes
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“[A child] does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods: the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.”
— C.S. Lewis, The Quotable Lewis. 205.
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“You can judge the fitness of an interactive application by the ratio of suggested states to states that are actually achievable.”
— periphera, Comment paraphrasing Chris Crawford
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When a director exploits our hardwired responses to pathos, he fails, so to speak, a test of honor.
— David Denby, Horse Power
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry, So, the best HUD is no… HUD? | inglorious
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There’s something inherently pedagogical about game design… Every game is in the business of teaching you its rules.
— Wes Erdelack, Versus CluClu Land: How it is that Games Teach you Things
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If you’re a critic, saying that something is ‘X meets Y’ is your super bomb—you only get one, use it wisely or you’re a jackass.
— J.P. LeBreton, 2:24 PM Oct 3rd from Echofon
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Do what you do best and link to the rest.
— Jeff Jarvis, Mirror man calls for end to 'unique users' metric
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