We have to accept as a society that games are not escapist. They really do change us.

Urgent optimism is the desire to act immediately to tackle an obstacle, combined with the belief that we have a reasonable hope of success.

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

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

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.

When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

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.