Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play.

The second thing for me, probably a few clicks down, is the idea that The Sims smoothly age and have different concerns and motivations and needs at different age ranges.

Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

I typically go overboard when I research new projects.

I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

For me, what's a more important question is how we get at least the option of more diverse experiences in this media.

Our country is not the only thing to which we owe our allegiance. It is also owed to justice and to humanity.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new truth or fact.

Divorce is an embarrassing public admission of defeat.

As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

It'd be impossible to capture the feel of 'All Quiet on the Western Front' in a novel starring Mace Windu; 'All Quiet' is a tragic coming-of-age story.

The time your game is most vulnerable is when youre ahead. Never let up.

Balance is so important. We all have to cut up our clock to find out what works for you. If you're ineffective, you're using bad clock management, and you have to adjust. Using a basketball reference, the team who wins is the team that can make adjustments in real time.

Animals are the best actors. They never lie, they're always present, and they listen. That's a lot more than a lot of actors can say for themselves.

If we don't do it, somebody else will. The Chinese, the Europeans and the Japanese all have the goal of going to the moon. Certainly we don't want to wake up and see that they have a base there before we do.

Among many other things, a smartphone functions as a handheld digital sensor for the physical world. In other words, we don't necessarily need our real world things to be directly connected, when the Web interface in our mobile devices provides the network access and intelligence.

I believe the Israelis have been wronged, but they also have a lot to apologize for. And I believe the Palestinians have been wronged, but they have a lot to apologize for, as well.

I'm a very private person, and you have a lot of people looking into your personal life, away from football. That's the one thing that I don't like, but I always remember how lucky we are that we're playing football.

There is a myth out there that somehow anabolic steroids can turn a cub into a bear. Steroids won't make you tough and competitive. What they will do is ruin your health. It's that simple.

I like girls that are down to earth, just like to have fun, and be themselves.

I can relax in L.A. I think I'm the only person in that town who doesn't want to act. I was an OK singer. I was an OK dancer. But acting? Never could do it.

Well, Jon Hamm isn't a real celebrity.

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness.

A baby is something you carry inside you for nine months, in your arms for three years and in your heart till the day you die.

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

I could announce one morning that the world was going to blow up in three hours and people would be calling in about my hair!

Film and television are just different. Film is cool because it's a complete package. You know the beginning, middle, and end. You can plan it out more, which I like. But with television you get a new script every week, so it's constantly a mystery as to what you're going to be doing.

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.