I definitely think we should stop putting so much effort into better graphics. In a lot of ways, the resources spent there are wasted.

The future is in people fully exploring possibilities and not getting stuck in the ruts that are present in terms of genres and so on. We need to be working on games that have never been done before, which is what I try to spend my time doing.

A different way to game - tech - 13 March 2012 - New Scientist

This statement should be applied to so many sectors. Stop putting effort into making a better “X”.

In the process of industrialization, the people who mastered one technology tended not to be those who came to dominate the next technology. The stagecoach people didn’t produce motorcars. The motor vehicle people weren’t the ones who ended up producing trains. The train people weren’t the aviation companies and so on. I worry about that all the time in the platforms of journalism. That’s one reason I’m willing to experiment with new media and platforms as they come along.

The New York Times’s Nick Kristof On Journalism In A Digital World And The Age Of Activism | Fast Company

The patterns now are very, very different. There are no technical limits to publication and distribution, but getting and focusing attention over a long period of time is a great deal harder. Scale is no longer a guarantee of stability. Production of culture is now open to anyone and everyone. Platforms and tools are becoming more central than publishers and distributors. None of this is new – our virtual book shelves are groaning with analyses of how the internet is changing content industries.

The New Patterns of Culture: Slow, Fast & Spiky « TEST

Investing in companies doing things that are breathtakingly new and ambitious is provocative. It is not what our industry is best at doing, at least, not in the past decade. And there is no way to assure a positive return – but at least it has a chance of working. Simply doing what everyone else does is not enough.

What Happened to the Future? « Founders Fund

Think, for a moment, about how impressive this is: the metacognitive brain is able to almost instantly make an assessment about all the facts, errata and detritus stuffed into the cortex. The end result is an epistemic intuition, which tells us whether or not we should press the buzzer.

What Watson Can Learn From The Human Brain | Wired Science | Wired.com