Core Concept Quotes

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

We're always looking for the backbone, the central idea, and once you have that you know everything can circle around it.

Radical simply means grasping things at the root.

When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.

Every vital organization owes its birth and life to an exciting and daring idea.

All that matters is that the thing be the thing of the thing.

What really matters is not how well a character fits a definition, but how strongly he or she resonates. Characters with strong, resonant ideas at their core will have more of an impact on the cultural consciousness than a character who's just an empty collection of attributes.

Everybody knows what the core of 'Dark Souls' is - the dev team does, the fans do, the media does - and that will never change.

It basically comes down to that word: Love. I guess that's what it's all about.

Every restaurant needs to have a point of view.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

It is my opinion that everything must be based on a simple idea. And it is my opinion that this idea, once we have finally discovered it, will be so compelling, so beautiful, that we will say to one another, yes, how could it have been any different.

Jean Renoir once suggested that most true creators have only one idea and spend their lives reworking it, but then very rapidly he added that most people don't have any ideas at all, so one idea is pretty amazing.

I'm interested in taking a form, breaking it apart, and then rebuilding it. It is about transformation for me...it is a very core notion that stabilizes my practice.

The whole essence of good drawing - and of good thinking, perhaps - is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.

I think art is not an ornament or refinement at the fringes of human intelligence, I think it's at the center. It's at the core.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Some men never master anything other than the details of a job. Others master the main idea back of the job.

From one learn all.

What I'm identifying with is the vision or the idea - whatever was the little nugget that started it.

In the first place, you must pay great attention to the key note.