This is a log of trivia and aesthetic curated by Jeremy Apthorp.

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Game designers: think of a single, sharp, spear-like mechanic, stick with it, set it in stone, and then make awesome levels.
— Tim Rogers
I do hope that I can convince you that developing a philosophy at all – that trying to understand games better than you did yesterday – is a worthwhile endeavor.
— Keith Burgun
Having a group of people with the same passion and drive as yourself cannot be understated.
— Randall Degges, How I Learned To Program

We all — in the end — die in medias res. In the middle of a story. Of many stories.
— Mona Simpson
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
— Randy Pausch

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
— e.e. cummings

(Source: corona-borealis, via insincerityasanartform)
I had my last drink of alcohol 3 years ago and it’s been a dance-battling, boat-cruising, skinny-dipping, world-traveling, HUGE party ever since.
— Darius Monsef
If it takes more than a simple presentation of your value to a prospect to get to a verbal yes, YOUR PRODUCT SUCKS.
— Micah Baldwin
Many people search for meaning and invariably end up disappointed or deluded, because there’s no meaning to find. Everybody who has meaning in their lives creates it for themselves, and their desperation for it and the means by which they find it characterize their lives. Whether you seek it with words, gods, institution or protestation, there is no actual meaning Out There, there is only the meaning you create, because meaning is a name for the process of our brains by which we communicate.
— Peter Welch
It was an act of tension, as the great things on earth are things of tension.
— The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later.
— Mona Simpson