The number of games went up or down according to the brutal, elegant logic of the economics of fun:a certain amount of difficultyplusa certain amount of your friendsplusa certain amount of interesting strangersplusa certain amount of rewardplusa certain amount of opportunityequaledfun
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
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Pierre Dos Utt
The complexity of our present trouble suggests as never before that we need to change our present concept of education. Education is not properly an industry, and its proper use is not to serve industries, either by job-training or by industry-subsidized research. It's proper use...
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Wendell Berry
If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to...
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Bertrand Russell
Most of us try to do too much because we are secretly afraid we will not be able to do anything at all.
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Rick Aster
Moments are the elements of profit
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Karl Marx
More Quotes By Cory Doctorow
When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do.
We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books. We treasure books we inherit from our parents, and we cherish the idea of passing those books on to our children. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Indeed, how many of us...
What's the point of a houseful of books you've already read?
If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.
