"A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome."

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Source : Katie Salen, Eric Zimmerman (2004). “Rules of Play: Game Design Fundamentals”, p.60, MIT Press

Katie Salen

#Player Quotes #Games Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“In 50 years, there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them.”
“In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.”
“As an actor, particularly in theatre, you're trying to get jobs on TV; but you're also losing jobs in theatre to people who are on television.”

Source : "STAGE TO SCREENS: Andrew Rannells, From The Book of Mormon to TV's "The New Normal"". Interview with Christopher Wallenberg, www.playbill.com. September 11, 2012.
“Profit is not the proper end and aim of management - it is what makes all of the proper ends and aims possible”
“I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone,”
“Thats the great thing about being an actor, you get to try out lots of things for your roles.”
“If you make demands on Him, you doubt Him. If you seek Him, you are absent from Him. If you seek other-than-Him, you are shameless before Him. If you make demands on other-than-Him, you are distant from Him.”
“Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.”

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