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Ian Bogost

" Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train yourself to be able to find it almost anywhere in almost anything. "

Mean , Able , Path

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" Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today. "

Thinking , Impact , Moving

" God will not speak to me and tell me to mow my lawn today. "

Today , Speak

" The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all. "

Problem , Fun , Mean

" My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or where things are in the kitchen. I have this almost unhealthily obsessive desire to have things in their place and she just totally doesn't. And this is a potential point of conflict, of course. "

Desire , Wife , Kitchen

" The whole idea of play is in finding, acknowledging, and then working with the natural constraints and limitations that you find in the world. "

World , Ideas , Play

" Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than the clothes in the laundry basket or the dishes in the sink. It's more a matter of the attention you're willing to bring to them, where you're willing to allow meaning and pleasure and the light to escape. "

Light , Clothes , Meaningful

" Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do. "

Ordinary , Can

" A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard. "

Thinking , Fun , movie

" I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides. "

Thinking , Play , Stuff

" Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them. "

Play , Over , You , Clever

" Today, all our wives and husbands have Blackberries or iPhones or Android devices or whatever-the progeny of those original 950 and 957 models that put data in our pockets. Now we all check their email (or Twitter, or Facebook, or Instagram, or) compulsively at the dinner table, or the traffic light. Now we all stow our devices on the nightstand before bed, and check them first thing in the morning. We all do. It's not abnormal, and it's not just for business. It's just what people do. Like smoking in 1965, it's just life. "

Husband , Light , Morning

" The universe is not particularly concerned with you. "

Universe , Concerned

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