No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.
Fandom, after all, is born of a balance between fascination and frustration: if media content didn't fascinate us, there would be no desire to engage with it; but if it didn't frustrate us on some level, there would be no drive to rewrite or remake it.
Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement.
The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.
Transmedia storytelling represents a process where integral elements of a fiction get dispersed systematically across multiple delivery channels for the purpose of creating a unified and coordinated entertainment experience. Ideally, each medium makes its own unique contribution to the unfolding of the story.
The key is to produce something that both pulls people together and gives them something to do.
Paul Furlong is my vintage Rolls Royce and he cost me nothing. We polish him, look after him, and I have him fine tuned by my mechanics. We take good care of him because we have to drive him every day, not just save him for weddings.
With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.
A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine. . . each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability and causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.
Science and medicine and technology have all produced the breathtaking advances with which they have gifted the human race, only because they have been willing to do what religion has consistently, staunchly, and stubbornly refused to do: question the prior assumption.