Games Quotes

Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do.

Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.
Eric Berne

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

Love is a game that two can play and both win.

I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.

It should be noted that the games of children are not games, and must be considered as their most serious actions.

You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.
David Hilbert

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside of an advertising agency.

Half the game is 90% mental.

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Chess is a sea in which a gnat may drink and an elephant may bathe.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.
Erno Rubik

It is impossible to win gracefully at chess. No man has yet said "Mate!" in a voice which failed to sound to his opponent bitter, boastful and malicious.
A.A. Milne

Most people think video games are all about a child staring at a TV with a joystick in his hands. I don't. They should belong to the entire family. I want families to play video games together.
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO

The game of life is a lot like football. You have to tackle your problems, block your fears, and score your points when you get the opportunity.

Cricket is the most senior, widespread and deeply rooted of English games.
Leslie Thomas John Arlott

When it comes to computer games, many academics seem to be one step down from judges in their lack of engagement with the real world.
Richard Allan Bartle

As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didnt make a turning point of it, we were assigned to the humanities, to poetry, philosophy, painting the nursery games of humankind, which had to be left behind when the age of science began. The humanities would be called upon to choose a wallpaper for the crypt, as the end drew near.

There is no mask that temptation cannot wear, and the idea that Satan is purely a logician is an illusion held by not a few naive people. Many a shifty old man sees him as an opponent in an academic argument, but if he does the observer is still at the stage of games and trifles. Sometimes, though not often, the black desire to harm wins out over quicker and less bitter delights. When that happens, evil shows itself for what it truly is, not a way of life, but an attack on life itself.







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