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"A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior."
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"Most of the men had simple souls. They could relate facts, but they said very little about what they dimly felt."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"We are, or rather our natural desire to evade pain and to attain pleasure is, the primary reason we do or say every single thing we do or say."

"I waited. Women talk when they want to. Or don't."

"Acceptable hypocrisy is often called politeness."

"Often a woman that doesn't have any business being in a fight is there because their ego thinks it can mend what other people can't. It's either superiority or a second chance to heal a wound they have, by meddling on your battlefield."

"No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately."

"Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless."

"Research has shown that smiling releases endorphins-the happy hormones that shift your physiology for improved well-being. When you smile and your eyes crinkle, your body releases chemicals that change the chemistry of your brain, lifting spirits, and reducing pain. Even when it is hard to smile and you are forcing it, positive changes take place in your physiology."
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"The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does."

"It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity."

"The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine."

"Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing."

"There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political."

"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it."

"I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it."

"In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there."

"Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!"

"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity."
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