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- Learn the fundamentals of the game and stick to them. Band-Aid remedies never last.
- Jack Nicklaus (1940 - )
- Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
- Goethe
- Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
- Baseball is a skilled game. It's America's game -- it, and high taxes.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
- I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming-- or buying software-- on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess.
- Ted Nelson
- Business is a good game - lots of competition and a minimum of rules. You keep score with money.
- Atari founder Nolan Bushnell
- I was not successful as a ballplayer, as it was a game of skill.
- Casey Stengel (1890 - 1975)
- The police.....always wanting to play games.
- Maude (Ruth Gordon), from the movie "Harold & Maude"
- Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
- Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)
- Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
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