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but he also believed that she would have to do more if she were to make games that people loved, not just games that people admired.

Alan Kay told Brand, “A true hacker is not a group person. He’s a person who loves to stay up all night, he and the machine in a love-hate relationship . . . They’re kids who tended to be brilliant but not very interested in conventional goals. And computing is just a fabulous place for that. . . . It’s a place where you can still be an artisan.” T

The more compelling a game is, the greater the “endogenous value” that is created within the game.

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What, after all, is a video game’s subtextual preoccupation if not the erasure of mortality?

Masa saw himself as an outsider in Japanese society, much as Adam did when he moved from Indianapolis back to Kibbutz Nir