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.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

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.

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

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

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