If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

It's a bit counter-intuitive to think about the future in terms of the past. But...I've learned an important trick: to develop foresight, you need to practice hindsight. Technologies, cultures, and climates may change, but our basic human needs and desires - to survive, to care for our families, and to lead happy, purposeful lives - remain the same.' p 5

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

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

Every game we play activates our brain, and it's the same brain we have in real life as we have in the game.

Research shows that when we're under stress or facing a major obstacle, we tend to focus on our weaknesses and what we're afraid of.

The single biggest misconception about games is that they're an escapist waste of time.