My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

The real world just doesn’t offer up as easily the carefully designed pleasures, the thrilling challenges, and the powerful social bonding afforded by virtual environments. Reality doesn’t motivate us as effectively. Reality isn’t engineered to maximize our potential. Reality wasn’t designed from the bottom up to make us happy.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

Growing up, I was prone to anxiety.