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Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social. -- Rich Sommer
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. -- Wayne Brady
Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy. -- Kenny Guinn
Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. -- Kenny Guinn
Gaming is going into storytelling. It was a new audience. -- Kevin Spacey
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine. -- George Herbert
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Gaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind. -- Thomas Jefferson
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In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license. -- Don Rickles
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good. -- Samuel Johnson
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Cloud Gaming means that the game doesn't need to be downloaded and run on your computer; it literally means the game runs out on the Internet, in the cloud, with the experience being streamed to the players. -- David Perry
Gaming is a kind of tacit confession that the company engaged therein do in general exceed the bounds of their respective fortunes, and therefore they cast lots to determine upon whom the ruin shall at present fall, that the rest may be saved a little longer. -- William Blackstone
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. -- Gary Gygax
Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need. -- Alexandra Robbins
To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience. -- Eugene Jarvis
For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming. -- Warren Spector
The further you get into technology, the further you go into gaming. That's the general rule. -- Nick Johnson
Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other. -- Charles Lamb
I foresee online gaming changing when there are good audio-visual links connecting the participants, thus approximating play in a face-to-face group. -- Gary Gygax
Over the years, Forgotten Realms and gaming have taken me all over the world and made me all sorts of new friends. -- Ed Greenwood
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better. -- Jim Lee
I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design. -- Trent Reznor
The idea of the 'lone gamer' is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life. -- Jane McGonigal
There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists. -- Anita Sarkeesian
With the recent addition of a full soundtrack and the players map, millions of Poptropicans around the globe are now fully immersed in a multimedia gaming experience when they embark on our high quality adventures. -- Jeff Kinney
I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on. -- John Carmack
Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling. -- Kevin Spacey
I don't think anything really consciously went into 'Legend' that was influenced by videogames, but I'm pretty sure some of my experiences and love for gaming contributed to a few of the factors that are in 'Legend'. -- Marie Lu
Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever. -- Zachary Levi
Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing. -- Rob Manuel
Every age has its storytelling form, and video gaming is a huge part of our culture. You can ignore or embrace video games and imbue them with the best artistic quality. People are enthralled with video games in the same way as other people love the cinema or theatre. -- Andy Serkis
I've always been a bit of a mix between art and technology. I used to paint a lot, but I'm not very good with my hands. It has always been a fusion between my computer gaming interests and being exposed to the rich data of society that we live in. -- Aaron Koblin
There is this tremendous amount of arrogance and hubris, where somebody can look at something for five minutes and dismiss it. Whether you talk about gaming or 20th century classical music, you can't do it in five minutes. You can't listen to 'The Rite of Spring' once and understand what Stravinsky was all about. -- Penn Jillette
Digital intimacy ruins the appetite for the real thing. So, when kids are gaming or even when spouses are gaming, they lose their appetite for genuine intimacy. Kids lose their appetite for getting their intimacy needs, their hunger for significance and attachment, with the family, and it erodes the relationship between them and their parents. -- Gordon Neufeld
I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer. -- Ice Cube
New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow. -- Jesse Schell
Man is a gaming animal. -- Charles Lamb
Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming. -- Benjamin Franklin
I've always played games. I've been brought up around gaming. -- Asa Butterfield
The gaming industry has been male-dominated ever since its inception. -- Anita Sarkeesian
I came quite late to gaming: I didn't start playing until 2002. -- Richard K. Morgan
Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace. -- Trip Hawkins
Every startup CEO should understand Gamification, because gaming is the new normal. -- Bing Gordon
Fundamentals in the gaming sector remained relatively healthy during the first quarter. -- Brian Gordon
With pro-gaming that's one of the toughest parts - living game to game. -- Jeremy Lin
Our mission is to revive the gaming industry by increasing our user base, -- Satoru Iwata
I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza. -- Malcolm Mclaren
Zynga made social gaming and play a worldwide phenomenon, and we remain the industry leader. -- Mark Pincus
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits. -- Gary Gygax
Every aspect of our lives are now connected: health, travel, sports, gaming, our homes, our cars - everything. -- Gary Shapiro
My characters are all kind of geek archetypes of people I've encountered at gaming and comic book conventions. -- Ernest Cline
I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved. -- Roberta Williams
We've taken what was just once a racetrack and made it a multifaceted gaming destination for the entire region. -- Steve Martin
By gaming we lose both our time and treasure - two things most precious to the life of man. -- Owen Feltham
I've always been a gamer, and I had a period where I was gaming at a really hardcore level. -- Aisha Tyler
Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before. -- William Wycherley
I played lots of games and I was a fan of gaming, so I was always looking for new games. -- Duncan Jones
All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment. -- Richard Whately
It's a mistake for Hollywood to impose themselves on the gaming space. Not only is it arrogant, but it hasn't really worked. -- Gore Verbinski
The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before. -- Jim Allchin
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does. -- Warren Spector
I watch NFL football on Sundays. I enjoy gaming with friends, meaning role-playing games; I still enjoy going to conventions and traveling. -- George R. R. Martin
Democrats love to criticize Republicans on guns, but they are generally mute when it comes to taking on Hollywood or the gaming industry. -- Mark McKinnon
Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry. -- Oliver Goldsmith
A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether it's on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software. -- Emmett Shear
A goal of Twitch is to be wherever gamers are, whether its on laptops and handheld devices or integrated into gaming consoles and software. -- Emmett Shear
Big data is at the foundation of all of the megatrends that are happening today, from social to mobile to the cloud to gaming. -- Chris Lynch
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong. -- Henry David Thoreau
[Sometimes] I sit in front of my [gaming] console with my headphones on and I play. I love that. It's a nice form of escapism. -- Idris Elba
Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, its a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360. -- Emmett Shear
Given the huge number Xbox owners and how many of them love gaming spectatorship, it's a natural fit to bring the Twitch experience to the 360. -- Emmett Shear
Macau is limited in size and land is expensive, so gaming and leisure development must be more efficient. We follow a very conservative financial strategy. -- Stanley Ho
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown. -- George Bernard Shaw
The incredible processing power of Tegra X1 enables us to bring Doom 3: BFG to Android and we're excited by the possibilities that GRID is bringing to gaming. -- Tim Willits
Free-form games in which the player can make choices about what the game is going to be, become a kind of gaming equivalent of the narrative possibility. -- Salman Rushdie
There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool. -- Emmett Shear
Ay, rail at gaming - 'tis a rich topic, and affords noble declamation. Go, preach against it in the city - you'll find a congregation in every tavern. -- Edward Moore
The gaming world is a complete mystery to me! Well, I did play Pac Man and Frogger using big machines at an arcade back in the '80s. -- Doug Jones
'TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with. -- Felicia Day
All this home-computer gaming, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, now this Xbox thing, maybe I just want the boys to see what blowing aliens away was like in the olden days. -- Thomas Pynchon
TableTop' is packed with gaming celebrities and independent game creators. This is a huge subculture that really doesn't have a vehicle to rally around or educate people with. -- Felicia Day
The gaming industry is a fairly liberal, hip place, and if you're making games people really don't care what your gender is. At least this has been my experience. -- Brenda Romero
I got involved early on in social media - I created one of the first social networks - and for me, social gaming was a natural evolution of that. -- Mark Pincus
I'm super excited about gaming always. That's the thing that I geek out over; those are the vlogs that I'm surfing if I'm not already playing a game at night. -- Felicia Day
I would not let an adult drive my robot. You don't have enough gaming experience. But I will let a kid with no license take control of my vehicle system. -- Robert Ballard
Short of baseball and my family, it was gaming. And gaming is a $20-million to $200-million multi-year effort. It's an insane, stupid and utterly irresponsible act. But I did it. -- Curt Schilling
It's quite an unfair thought that Microsoft are trying to control our gaming, they're trying to force us to be online all the time. [People] didn't really think that through. -- Peter Molyneux
PC gaming has always been strong, and I see it surviving for quite a few more years. It will be around for at least as long as people use PCs. -- Markus Persson
Nintendo DS is not standing still. As a tenth serious competitor decides to make a run at Game Boy, DS raises the bar on portable gaming, before they even get started. -- Reggie Fils-Aime
The time for invisible boundaries that guard the 'purity' of gaming as a niche subculture is over. The violent macho power fantasy will no longer define what gaming is all about. -- Anita Sarkeesian
Super Mario Bros. is equivalent to the Big Bang of our gaming universe. If it were not for this blindingly spectacular creation, digital entertainment as we know it today would not exist. -- Hideo Kojima
Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most? -- John Gay
I'm not a big gamer myself. I've (become) increasingly interested in games. And I certainly am passionate about, about storytelling in gaming. And, and the marriage of, you know, immersive characters, with gaming. -- Andy Serkis
In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing down and simply being alone with our thoughts. -- Carl Honore
Gambling is not a vice, it is an expression of our humanness. We gamble. Some do it at the gaming table, some do not. You play, you win, you play, you lose. You play. -- Jeanette Winterson
I do NOT think that PC gaming is over... it will always be the choice of the gaming enthusiast who is willing to put in the extra effort for a richer, more rewarding experience. -- Mike Wilson
Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time. -- Jane McGonigal
It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope. -- Gabe Newell
In my address last year, I spoke on the issue of gaming. My preference then is my preference now: to keep gaming within its existing contours, but to explore a better deal for all Minnesotans. -- Tim Pawlenty
Wit generally succeeds more from being happily addressed than from its native poignancy. A jest, calculated to spread at a gaming-table, may be received with, perfect indifference should it happen to drop in a mackerel-boat. -- Oliver Goldsmith

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