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

- Ian Bogost

If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you…

- Ian Bogost

Actually a lot of the supposedly serious and meaningful and worthwhile content on the podcast or on the television is no more or less meaningful than…

- Ian Bogost

When we use this word fun, it sort of bangs up the ordinary and the extraordinary altogether.

- Ian Bogost

My wife, there's certain kinds of housework that she just doesn't see as necessary to do in the way that I do. Things like the state of our closet or…

- Ian Bogost

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

- Ian Bogost

A fun movie is something that is pleasurable without being demanding, you don't have to think too hard.

- Ian Bogost

Looking for meaning in the ordinary seems like the most urgent thing that we can do.

- Ian Bogost

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 i…

- Ian Bogost