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Gary Gygax

"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."

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A.E. Samaan

"Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?"

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A.E. Samaan

"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."

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A.E. Samaan

"Design is directed toward human beings. To design is to solve human problems by identifying them and executing the best solution."

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A.E. Samaan

"Actually, I didn't make the claim that Ruby follows the principle of least surprise. Someone felt the design of Ruby follows that philosophy, so they started saying that. I didn't bring that up, actually."

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A.E. Samaan

"Biological engineering is not necessarily understanding systems but rather, I want to be able to design and build biological systems to perform particular applications."

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A.E. Samaan

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

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A.E. Samaan

"It is relatively easy to design for the perfect cases, when everything goes right, or when all the information required is available in proper format."

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A.E. Samaan

"Design, in its broadest sense, is the enabler of the digital era - it's a process that creates order out of chaos, that renders technology usable to business. Design means being good, not just looking good."

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A.E. Samaan

"I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary."

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"In my opinion, no single design is apt to be optimal for everyone."

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Gary Gygax
"Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life."

Life

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Gary Gygax
"I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group."

Technology

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Gary Gygax
"Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another."

People

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Gary Gygax
"Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women."

Design

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Gary Gygax
"Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time."

Time

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Gary Gygax
"The essence of a role-playing game is that it is a group, cooperative experience."

Experience

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Gary Gygax
"There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things."

Experience

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Gary Gygax
"Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff."

Fire

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Gary Gygax
"I wasn't popular in the home office because I wasn't chicken. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts."

Home

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Gary Gygax
"When AI approximates Machine Intelligence, then many online and computer-run RPGs will move towards actual RPG activity. Nonetheless, that will not replace the experience of 'being there,' any more than seeing a theatrical motion picture can replace the stage play."

Experience

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