Quotes by Chris Green

“Pac-Man didnt occupy its place in commercial culture because consumers wanted to metaphorically imitate an insatiably hungry little yellow ball; they bought because the game was good enough to tap into genuine sources of pleasure”

“Space Invaders proved so addictive that it not only inaugurated an entire video game paradigm, it caused a nationwide coin shortage in Japan”

“The psychic space that Pac-Man grew to occupy in early 1980s popular culture was truly enormous, filling in the vacuum of downtime between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi and stepping into the breach vacated by Kiss, when all of Am”

“Just passing is not acceptable in our household. We have high expectations and use those tools to motivate, guide, and sometimes when a crisis hits, there have to be things taken away. We dont let it slide, ... It should not be the parents option, it should not be the students option to make the decision to go to the athletic field. They must have fulfilled their obligation in the classrooms first.”

“boxing in a ring is not a big deal. At least you dont have to fight guys much larger than you.”

“To me, the choir is my service to the Lord and fellow man, ... and you cant put a price tag on that.”

“The problem is with these that the donations are not only not going to charities, but youre handing over credit card info and details used for further fraud.”

“A legitimate charity will not send you an unsolicited e-mail asking for money -- thats not how a professional charity works,”

“Secondly, be very careful of any links you click through -- make sure theyre going to a legitimate site and not a like-sounding site.”

“They do it from the heart. They dont get any funding for it from the state or federal government.”

There is apparently an easy test to distinguish good schoolteachers from poor ones; ask them what they teach. Poor ones reply, I teach French, or I teach physics or whatever their subject is. Good ones say, I teach children. The teacher here would have fallen into the second group: he taught knowledge to people. Or better, he imparted knowledge, meaning he passed over so that the people who learned from him knew the lessons for themselves.