Mark Pincus Quotes

There was a naive quality in 1982 around technology and the start of video games. And that's like the start of electronic music - there was this statement and, ideologically, these things to fight for.

Experimenting with your own life is the most fundamental medium we have.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

There comes a time or a moment when you know in which direction you're going to go. I know it happened to me when I was quite young.

I don't worry about anything in the Internet age. I have been online since I was aware of it: 1985 in San Francisco. It has changed everything in my life. I would not want to even be alive in an era that did not have it because it is essential to our evolution as a species.

It's one thing to dream, but when the moment is right, you've got to be willing to leave what's familiar and go out to find your own sound.

We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities.

I don't have a career, I have a life. Don't think of a career, think about your passion and look for inspiration.

My only job has been to say that you have to, try different things and let yourself become a different person, have experiences.

Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her.

I had to learn to think, feel, and see in a totally new fashion, in an uneducated way, in my own way, which is the hardest thing in the world. I had to throw myself into the current, knowing that I would probably sink. The great majority of artists are throwing themselves in with life preservers around their necks, and more often than not it is the life preserver, which sinks them. Nobody can drown in the ocean of reality who voluntarily gives herself up to the experience. Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives.

Anything is one of a million paths. Therefore you must always keep in mind that a path is only a path; if you feel you should not follow, you must not stay with it under any circumstances.

The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.

I did not see any way that I could possibly give birth to someone else and also give birth to myself. Far from feeling guilty, it was the first time that I had taken responsibility for my own life.

I can't imagine ever not doing [acting]. I would feel like I would have lost a limb. But I am older now, and sometimes I wonder who I would have been and what about me would have changed had I not had these experiences as a young person

Personal experimentation is revealing, and once you get into it, immensely engaging.

Because it's our choices that makes us who we are.

I mean, what do you think creativity is? Nothing but self-indulgence. And the more self-indulgent it is, the more interesting it becomes. So I think that part of creativity is also falling in love with your own narcissism: accepting it, using it as an asset.

In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime.

Man is a thought-adventurer.

With every movie I do and every day I go to work, my goal is not just to reach for difference, but also figure out how to look at world and characters in a different way.

I think it's a big mistake to decide too soon what you're going to do with your life.