David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

Tag: Quote

  • Massimo Vignelli

    To fight and oppose trivia, kitsch and all forms of subculture which are visually polluting our world.

  • Freeman Dyson, physicist (b. 1923)

    I believe that life can go on forever. It takes a million years to evolve a new species, ten million for a new genus, one hundred million for a class, a billion for a phylum — and that’s usually as far as your imagination goes. In a billion years, it seems, intelligent life might be as different from humans as humans are from insects. But what would happen in another ten billion years? It’s utterly impossible to conceive of ourselves changing as drastically as that, over and over again. All you can say is, on that kind of time scale the material form that life would take is completely open. To change from a human being to a cloud may seem a big order, but it’s the kind of change you’d expect over billions of years.


  • Mark Rosewater

    zanmor asked: By comparison, what would you say defines a fantasy story? The use of myth?
    Fantasy at its core is about morality, the concept of absolute good and absolute evil.

  • Edgar Allan Poe

    He who pleases is of more importance to his fellow man than he who instructs.



  • Monte Cook

    Dungeons and Dragons is about quantifying things.

  • Neal Gaiman



    Also because I do not think that the end justifies the means.

  • Brian Kibler

    Life isn’t all cut scenes and boss fights – killing boars adds up too



  • Mike Mearls on D&D 5E Design Ethos

    we are not going to try to make rules that would stop people who want to be bored from doing boring things



    Quote is at 48:12 on the Dungeons & Dragons Starter Set Unboxing

    https://youtube.googleapis.com/v/L9pBZTyQ-iA&source=uds

  • T.S. Eliot

    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”

  • Chaos is not a pit, it is a ladder.

    Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail, never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some, given a chance to climb, they cling to the realm, or the gods, or love. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
    Petyr Baelish