Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
Source: Frost Burned
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995), New Rules for the New Economy: 10 Radical Strategies for a Connected World (1999)
“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Red Mars (1992), Chapter 6, “Guns Under the Table” (p. 431)
“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”
Jerome David Salinger book The Catcher in the Rye
Mr. Spencer
Source: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
“we can't change the game but rules can be adjusted”
Josephs Quartzy (1999) Tanzanian actor
Source: Sweetest song I know
“White people love playing ‘divide & rule’. We should not play their game.”
Diane Abbott (1953) British Labour Party politician
Twitter post reproduced in Daily Telegraph, 5 Jan 2012 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/8994068/Diane-Abbott-White-people-love-playing-divide-and-rule.html <br class="br">2010s, 2012
Richard Feynman (1918–1988) American theoretical physicist
Even if we knew every rule, however, we might not be able to understand why a particular move is made in the game, merely because it is too complicated and our minds are limited. If you play chess you must know that it is easy to learn all the rules, and yet it is often very hard to select the best move or to understand why a player moves as he does. So it is in nature, only much more so.
volume I; lecture 2, "Basic Physics"; section 2-1, "Introduction"; p. 2-1
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (1964)
Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
Source: The Bridge Across Forever (1984), Ch. 15
Source: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“To obey a rule, to make a report, to give an order, to play a game of chess, are customs”
Ludwig Wittgenstein book Philosophical Investigations
uses, institutions
§ 199
Philosophical Investigations (1953)