"You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded."

“The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.”

Source : "Gaming academic Jesse Schell expounds on chocofication and motivating players to play and pay (interview)". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. February 10, 2013.

“You are not broken. You break again and again because that's what breaking means. To be whole.”

Source : Brenda Shaughnessy (2008). “Human Dark with Sugar”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

“Why is it that drug addicts and computer aficionados are both called users?”

“Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

“Give a man love, and he will be happy for a time. Teach a man how to love, and he will have joy through all eternity.”

“Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?”

“The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.”

“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.”

Source : 'The Traveller' (1764) l. 386