Jan

11

Celebrated

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Go where you are celebrated, not merely tolerated.

(Paul F. Davis, Speaker)

Apr

21

Being grateful

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No matter where you think you broke out or you made it, there’s always a some other rung to climb. They key to being happy is just being grateful where you are in the ladder.

(Lena Hall, Actress, Singer & Songwriter)

Mar

1

You’ve got to be patient

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You know, the thing is, if you’re going to be around for 30, 40 years, you’re going to be at the mercy of a lot of things outside of your control. (…) But if there’s quality there and you don’t get desperate and you sort of plug away, things come around again. (…) You’ve got to be patient. The most important thing is you’ve got not to give up.

(Jim Kerr, Singer, Simple Minds)

Sep

6

Bedenkliche Sprachmanipulationen

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Ich finde es sehr bedenklich, wenn man aus politischen Gründen Sprache manipuliert und auch Kunst dadurch verändert. Gesellschaftlich bin ich hundertprozentig für die Gleichstellung von Frauen. Sie sollen das Gleiche verdienen wie Männer bei einer gleichwertigen Tätigkeit und Position. Aber dieses zwanghafte “Wir müssen überall die weiblichen Formen einführen” … Wir dürfen nicht mehr von Studenten reden, weil damit die Studentinnen angeblich unterschlagen werden. Das stimmt nicht. Das grammatische Geschlecht ist nicht gleichbedeutend mit dem natürlichen, biologischen Geschlecht. Nehmen Sie das Wort “die Person”. Das ist weiblich. Sind Männer keine Personen? Das ist vollkommener Quatsch. Da ist die Sprache zum Instrument der Politik gemacht worden. Immer, wenn das passiert, werde ich äußerst skeptisch.

(Bastian Sick, Journalist und Autor, unter anderem “Zwiebelfisch”)

Nov

18

Everything is borrowed

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Nobody really owns anything. We give back our bodies at the end of our lives. We own our thoughts, but everything else is just borrowed. We use it for a while, then pass it on. Everything.

(Deborah Ellis, Schriftstellerin)

Oct

29

Mehr Zeit?

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If I had more time, I would have written less.

(Donald Bain, Schriftsteller, 1935-2017)

Nov

5

Care about other things!

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The most important thing that creators, players, and critics of games can do is to care deeply about many other things that have nothing to do with games. It doesn’t even matter what it is. Knitting or car racing or woodworking or small-batch spirits or historical preservation or soccer or German Enlightenment philosophy or cinema or gardening or anything else. And ideally many things. And not just your own, either. The gravest worry I have about games writ large is that we are too cloistered, too internally-directed, interested mostly in ourselves and not enough in other things.

(Ian Bogost, Author, Game Designer and Scholar in this interview.)

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