When we play games, our brains respond differently to stress and obstacles. We're better able to control our attention and ignore distractions.

Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

When we play a game, we tackle tough challenges with more creativity, more determination, more optimism, and we're more likely to reach out to others for help.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

There is no problem that doesn't have some underlying need for more optimism, stamina, resilience and collaboration. And games are, I believe, the best platform we have for providing that.

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

What's really amazing about games is how they change our emotional response to challenges

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

My goal for the next decade is to try to make it as easy to save the world in real life as it is to save the world in online games.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Games are unnecessary obstacles we volunteer to tackle.

To paraphrase Forrest Gump, "Ugly is, as Ugly does!

She [Theresa May] has done more to bring immigration down and abolish things like bogus colleges.

Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl.

Our admiration is so given to dead martyrs that we have little time for living heroes.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

I'm not homophobic. I'm not scared of my house.

I believe in freedom, I'm for a world without borders. But that's an ideal. On a practical level, I'm for a secular state where religion only plays a minor role.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind.

My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient.