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Ian Bogost Quotes: "The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all."

The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places."

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.




Ian Bogost Quotes: "For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life."

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides."

I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.




Ian Bogost Quotes: "Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it."

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent."

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun.""

Generally speaking, when people use the word fun, it's like a placeholder. You know, "How was your evening?" "Oh it was fun."




Ian Bogost Quotes: "The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited."

The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable."

It's helpful to be prepared to celebrate the tiny things that you can do, where you meet the world and you negotiate an outcome that's quite tiny. But you can still make it feel remarkable.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning."

No one wakes up and says, "Yay I get to mow the lawn!" But if I can find meaning there, then there's nowhere I can't find meaning.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can."

My lawnmower can't change in the way that my son can or that I can.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad."

There are things about us that make us who we are, personality traits, or capacities that we have, or knowledge we possess or that we don't possess, habits we have that are good or bad.




Ian Bogost Quotes: "There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities."

There are also many things my wife can't stand about me, and there are certain capacities that she has that are different than mine. The trick is to find compatibilities.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new."

Every now and then if you try, you can discover something new.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether."

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people."

Fun doesn't have anything to do with pleasure, necessarily. I think this will be terrifically unintuitive for people.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure."

We're used to thinking of fun as a sort of synonym for light pleasure.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard."

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself."

The playful perspective is not meant to turn your life into a game or a jungle gym. It's rather that the activity is looking outside of yourself.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do."

If you think of play as being in things, there are things that are playable, then it becomes the work of figuring out what a thing can do.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility."

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "The universe is not particularly concerned with you."

The universe is not particularly concerned with you.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want."

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful."

The idea of thinking of our relationships with people as also being structured by limitations and constraints can be useful.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer."

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do."

Normally we think of play as the opposite of work. Work is the thing you have to do, and then there's play, the thing you choose to do.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play."

You allow yourself to discover the things that are already there when you play.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you."

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living."

To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force."

We don't like to think of ourselves as subject to the forces of the world, we like to think of ourselves as exerting that force.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do."

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today."

God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time."

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world."

The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world.



Ian Bogost Quotes: "It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful."

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.