Jesse Schell

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

A good game gives us meaningful accomplishment - clear achievement that we don't necessarily get from real life. In a game, you've beaten level four, the boss monster is dead, you have a badge, and now you have a super laser sword. Real life isn't like that, right?

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the 'Gamepocalypse:' the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

More and more women are going online.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?