
„Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.“
— Jerome David Salinger, buch Der Fänger im Roggen
Mr. Spencer
Quelle: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
„Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.“
— Jerome David Salinger, buch Der Fänger im Roggen
Mr. Spencer
Quelle: The Catcher in the Rye (1951), Chapter 2
— Suzanne Collins American television writer and novelist 1962
Katniss (p. 389)
The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
— George Long English classical scholar 1800 - 1879
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
— Jack Vance, Lyonesse Trilogy
Quelle: Lyonesse Trilogy (1983-1989), Madouc (1989), Chapter 8, section 5 (p. 904)
— Babe Ruth American baseball player 1895 - 1948
On the mentoring he received from Brother Matthias Boutlier, Prefect of Discipline at St. Mary's Industrial School for Boys, in "Ruth, As a Kid, Learns to Play in Any Position" http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1920/08/09/page/15/ by Ruth, as told to Westbrook Pegler (uncredited), in The Chicago Tribune (August 9, 1920), p. 15; reprinted as "We Did Everything," https://books.google.com/books?id=SAAlxi-0EZYC&pg=PA6&dq=%22Brother+Matthias+had+the+right+idea%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv7_zWgLnQAhUJ7yYKHZQFA_EQ6AEIGjAB#v=onepage&q=%22Brother%20Matthias%20had%20the%20right%20idea%22&f=false in Playing the Game: My Early Years in Baseball (2011), p. 6
— Josh Billings American humorist 1818 - 1885
Josh Billings on Ice, and Other Things https://archive.org/details/joshbillingsoni00billgoog (1868), Chapter XXIV: "Perkussion Caps", p. 89; republished in The Complete Works of Josh Billings http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36556 (1876), Chapter 141: "Ods and Ens", p. 248. Often paraphrased as "Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well."
— Larry Niven American writer 1938
There Is a Tide (p. 206)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)
— James P. Carse American academic
Quelle: Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
— Saint Patrick 5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland 385 - 461
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)
Kontext: I do not overreach myself, for I too have my part to play with "those whom he has called to himself and predestined" to teach the gospel in the midst of considerable persecutions "as far as the ends of the earth", even if the enemy reveals his true envy through the tyranny of Coroticus, who fears neither God nor the priests whom he has chosen and to whom he has given the highest divine power, namely that "those whom they bind on earth are bound in heaven."
— Eiji Aonuma Japanese video game designer 1963
Zelda Producer Eiji Aonuma Talks Creating Majora's Mask And His Personal Hobbies http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2015/02/21/zelda-eiji-aonuma-interview.aspx?PostPageIndex=3 (February 21, 2015)
„I was so poor growing up…if I wasn't a boy…I'd have nothing to play with. “
— Rodney Dangerfield American actor and comedian 1921 - 2004
— Anatol Rapoport Russian-born American mathematical psychologist 1911 - 2007
Quelle: 1960s, "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory," 1962, p. 110
— Huey P. Newton Co-founder of the Black Panther Party 1942 - 1989
quoted in David Hilliard (2006) Huey: Spirit of the Panther, p. 46