"At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior."

Behavior, Entertainment, Symbol

25

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior."

Exlpore more Behavior quotes

"If you behave in a manner that poisons your relationship, don't be surprised when it dies."

Steve Maraboli, American Author

Behavior, Relationships, Poison, Consequences

"To probe for unconscious determinants of behavior and then define a man in their terms exclusively, ignoring his overt behavior altogether, is a greater distortion than ignoring the unconscious completely."

Willard Gaylin, American Scientist

Behavior, Man, Unconscious

"Vanity dies hard, in some obstinate cases it outlives the man."

Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish Writer

Behavior, Vanity, Death, Humanity, Truth

"Marianne had now been brought by degrees, so much into the habit of going out every day, that it was become a matter of indifference to her, whether she went or not: and she prepared quietly and mechanically for every evening's engagement, though without expecting the smallest amusement from any, and very often without knowing, till the last moment, where it was to take her."

Jane Austen, British Writer

Behavior, Habit, Indifference, Routine, Engagement

"A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people have snarling dogs, dangerous people have dangerous ones."

Arthur Conan Doyle, British Writer

Behavior, Reflection, Family, Emotion

"Flirting with random women in a tavern? That sounds like Helios. Well, it sounds like most of the gods, actually."

Rick Riordan, American Novelist

Behavior, Humor, Truth, Life, Happiness

"Don't plead with anyone if you were not at fault, you'll only look inferior, stupid and funny, bolster your ego by doing the undoing."

Michael Bassey Johnson, Nigerian Philosopher

Behavior, Pride, Ego, Respect, Conflict

"Politeness is organized indifference."

Paul Valery, French Poet

Behavior, Indifference, Politeness

"You have to first position yourself with the right level of mannerism, before others could see a reason to respect you."

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Behavior, Respect, Manners, Self

"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

Alexandre Dumas, French Dramatist

Behavior, Advice, People, Mindset, Blame

Explore more quotes by John Carmack

"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."

Love

"Rocket science has been mythologized all out of proportion to its true difficulty."

Science

"The speed of light sucks."

Light

"Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end PC is right now."

Truth

"Focus is a matter of deciding what things you're not going to do."

Focus

"Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul."

Soul

"I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game."

Deserted

"The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC."

Development

"Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it. If you aren't sure which way to do something, do it both ways and see which works better."

Work

"Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later."

Nature