A good story never dies.

I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

A good story never dies.

King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.

When you feel like stopping, think about why you started.

A Harvard education consists of what you learn at Harvard while you are not studying.

I have a wonderful road manager, and he travels with me. And my valet and friend travels with me. My little entourage is great, and they take good care of me.

Play is the beginning of knowledge.

The fun thing about Snapchat is really the surprise and the joy that comes from learning how to use it.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.

I think it's a shame when the arts have to suffer because of corporate greed. People will always strive to make film, and the only important thing is that we keep trying to make ourselves heard and keep making our films, no matter what the climate is.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, and 'Devil's Arithmetic,' how can the public make sense of that! I have fans who think I only write picture books or only write SF and fantasy. I have fanatics of my poetry and are stunned to find out I write prose, too!

What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

In general, literature is a natural adversary of totalitarianism. Tyrannical governments all view literature in the same way: as their enemy. I lived for a long time in a totalitarian state, and I know firsthand that horror.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

Devote each day to the object then in time and every evening will find something done.

The citizen giving a statement to the government is not greeted in any way by the government and the government is giving a notice to the public not to be greeted in any way by the citizen.

I strongly believe we must move forward with these much-needed reforms to the Ex-Im Bank by acting on a five-year reauthorization bill.

He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '

The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken - a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

You could summarize everything I did at Apple was making tools to empower creative people. 'QuickDraw' empowered all these other programmers to now be able to sling stuff on the screen. The 'Window Manager,' 'Event Manager,' and 'Menu Manager.' Those are things that I worked on that were empowering other people.

I don't know Laura Bush. But she seems to be calm, and she has a sparkle in her eye, which is good. But I don't know that she's ever had a real job - I mean, since she's been grown up.

And with the rape, I was showing why the rape statistics are exaggerated, and saying that date rape was much more complex than the way feminists had portrayed it, as men oppressing women.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.