"I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible."

“For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.”

“I always just want to move along to the next step.”

Source : "Ben Silbermann, Pinterest Founder And CEO, Talks Criticism, Fears". Interview with Sara Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 27, 2012.

“I still wasn't convinced that tossing a shoe didn't mean you harbored an anger-management problem, but I did understand love now. How it wrapped around you and made you more aware of the prickles on your skin, the roots of your hair, the intensity of every touch and every inch of you. It was like life on hi-def. Everything was sharper.”

Source : Erin McCarthy (2013). “True”, p.117, Penguin

“I figured I had seconds, maybe minutes to live.”

“I'm normally drawn to something I haven't done and seen before.”

Source : "All the world's an art school". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2004.

“Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”

“Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things.”

“So sweet love seemed that April morn, when first we kissed beside the thorn, so strangely sweet, it was not strange we thought that love could never change.”

Source : 'So sweet love seemed' (1894)