Quotes About Exploration

A place is not really a place without a bookstore.

No one travels without purpose. Those who are lost wish to be lost.

I met a travler from an ancient land.

We must fill our infinite days with something.

A programmer is a diviner of possible outcomes, and a seer of unseen worlds.

In Amelia's experience, most people's problems would be solved if they would only give more things a chance.

What makes a person want to shiver in a train station for nothing more than the promise of a secret image? But then, what makes a person drive down an unmarked road in the middle of the night? Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.

The store is fifteen Mayas wide and twenty Mayas long. She knows this because she once spent an afternoon measuring it by lying her body across the room. It is fortunate that it is not more than thirty Mayas long because that is as far as she could count on the day the measurements were taken.

If Marx at twenty-two had a problem, it was that he was attracted to too many things and people.

Commander Keen, Myst, Doom, Diablo, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear Solid, Leisure Suit Larry, The Colonel's Bequest, Ultima, Warcraft, Monkey Island, The Oregon Trail

Sadie was twenty-two when Ichigo was launched, and she hadn't figured out who she was in public yet. (She barely knew who she was in private.)

isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

A maze," he would say, "is a video game distilled to its purest form.

The child's body moves the way a body can move before it has felt or even encountered the idea of pain.

If you're always aiming for perfection, you won't make anything at all.

En stad är ingen stad utan en bokhandel (en variant ursprungligen från "Amerikanska gudar" av Neil Gaiman)

Ah, but Sadie Green was a gamer! In a game, if a sign warns you not to open a certain door, you will definitely open that door. If it doesn't work out, you can always go back to the save point and start again.

You are happy and you are bored. You need to find a new pastime.

A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work.

The first way Maya approaches a book is to smell it.

We had so much freedom—creatively, technically. No one was watching us, and we weren't even watching ourselves. What we had was our impossibly high standards, and your completely theoretical conviction that we could make a great game.

Nadie viaja sin motivo. Quien se pierde es porque desea perderse.

Go ask Sadie what it would take to turn Mapletown into an online role-playing game. And here I am. I obey the giant bird of dreams.

she felt that she had been able to push the boundaries, technically and narratively. And what was the point of making games if you weren't going to do that?