A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

People don't just stop playing Facebook games. They divorce them.

More and more women are going online.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the Gamepocalypse: the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using. ...