Jesse Schell Quotes

Games have no other purpose than to please.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using. ...

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

People don't just stop playing Facebook games. They divorce them.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

More and more women are going online.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.