When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and voluntary participation.

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.

A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.

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

I see a future in which games once again are explicitly designed to improve quality of life, to prevent suffering, and to create real, widespread happiness.

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.