Kurt Squire famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Players enjoy complexity â€“ especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is â€œuninteresting decisions,â€ or games that leave them confused or with too many â€œeasyâ€ decisions â€“ decisions where there is no learning to be had.
-- Kurt Squire

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There is a well known saying among designers in the educational games business: 'If you want to take all of the fun out of it, get a bunch of educators involved.
-- Kurt Squire

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Designing Online Communities is a must-have for anyone designing or researching online communities, particularly for learning. Owens' work is both comprehensive and eminently readable, a sweeping look at the technologies, design patterns, and cultural forms they produce that is both theoretically ambitious and grounded in examples and tools that will help you develop, research, and manage online communities.
-- Kurt Squire

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Players enjoy complexity – especially the power that comes with powerful tools. What they do not like is “uninteresting decisions,” or games that leave them confused or with too many “easy” decisions – decisions where there is no learning to be had.
-- Kurt Squire

#Powerful #Confused #Player

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.
In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.
A great many of us have confused change with progress.
The American president increasingly used his influence to create conflicts, intensify existing conflicts, and, above all, to keep conflicts from being resolved peacefully. For years this man looked for a dispute anywhere in the world, but preferably in Europe, that he could use to create political entanglements with American economic obligations to one of the contending sides, which would then steadily involve America in the conflict and thus divert attention from his own confused domestic economic policies.
Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion,you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them.
Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.
I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team

Kurt Squire famous quotes

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