Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.

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.

Cory Doctorow is a fast and furious storyteller who gets all the details of alternate reality gaming right, while offering a startling, new vision of how these games might play out in the high-stakes context of a terrorist attack. Little Brother is a brilliant novel with a bold argument: hackers and gamers might just be our country's best hope for the future.

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

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

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

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