Video Game Designer Quotes & Sayings

Once, my writing-avoidance behavior involved me mixing up a cleaning concoction and getting some ancient stains out of the carpet. My wife liked that one. — Tim Pratt

The best gift, and investment, you can give your child is your time — Kevin Heath

Everybody always wanted to do something, and here come the guys who always wanted to joyride in a city bus. — Ben H. Winters

Espionage is not supposed to be sporting, otherwise it would not be clandestine. — Khalid Muhammad

But you can't worry about what life's going to spit in your direction. — Tiffany Baker

You might be a redneck if there is a sheet hanging in your closet and a gun rack hanging in your truck. — Jeff Foxworthy

Thank you. I don't know what I'd do without you.'
'I wouldn't worry about it if I were you. — Lisa McMann

It's not always about writing more words or drinking more coffee. Sometimes getting to the end of a novel simply takes remembering that the world is more complicated than we know, and then sticking some of those complications into the story. — Scott Westerfeld

Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it. — James Paul Gee

The feeling that something good will happen must always be kept alive! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

They aren't heroes because you wave your big veiny wand. They're heroes when they save the world from itself — Damon Suede

We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great. — Wilt Chamberlain

When you die, there is nothing
only a life that will be forgotten."
-from "Gathering Ashes — Yasunari Kawabata

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym. — Rodney King

A method of schooling founded by the Italian educator Maria Montessori that emphasizes collaborative, explorative learning, and whose alumni include Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page; Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales; video-game designer Will Wright; Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos; chef Julia Child; and rap impresario Sean Combs. — Daniel Coyle

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school? — Cecily Strong

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness ... The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead. — Paul Dirac

As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for enjoying narratives and learning from them but also for creating them. In the same way that your mind sees an abstract pattern and resolves it into a face, your imagination sees a pattern of events and resolves it into a story. — Jonathan Gottschall

I give the world thoughtful observations and considered theses, and it gives me back a dozen Kardashians. You know what's going to happen to my library when I sell it? Nothing. Flat nothing. It will probably go to some interior designer who will tell her client how authentic it is. But I'll be damned if a single one of the books are cracked open by their video-game-playing fucktard children! — Jade Chang

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion. — David Crane