Finite and Infinite Games is a book by religious scholar James P. Carse. Kevin Kelly has praised it for "alter my thinking about life, the universe, and everything."
Famous quotes containing the words finite, infinite and/or games:
“God is a being of transcendent and unlimited perfections: his nature therefore is incomprehensible to finite spirits.”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)
“It has no future but itself—
Its infinite contain
Its past—enlightened to perceive
New periods of pain.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)
“Intelligence and war are games, perhaps the only meaningful games left. If any player becomes too proficient, the game is threatened with termination.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)