To me, being able to find gratification in more venues, rather than greater gratification in a few, seems like a much more sane way of living.

Fun has to do with habitual activities but then also terrifically novel or unusual ones. It works as a sort of strange milkshake of those concepts.

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

For me, what fun means is finding novelty in the suffocating familiarity of ordinary life.

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

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.

Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.

We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

It's not even that finding laundry pleasurable or delightful should be our goal rather than finding television delightful. It's that both laundry and television can be delightful.

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

There's just an enormous vast universe of possible intrigue out there and why not pay attention to it? Because then you're not burdened with trying to find that meaning in yourself all the time.

Life is like a novel. It's filled with suspense. You have no idea what is going to happen until you turn the page.

Childhood is the best period of life...

Nothing is as peaceful as when Christmas is over, when one has been forgiven for everything and can be normal again.

If nothing else, I'm a decent quote.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

I knew the people who worked for me. When you know people, you have to behave towards them like human beings.

It is wonderful to be in solidarity with another big group of people.

Yes, I don’t have any talent. That’s why I work hard.

And wouldn't you know he'd be a singing man.