Clark Aldrich - Quotations

Quotations

• "If I had six hours to learn anything, I would spend four of it practicing."
• “I made a perfect simulation about growing a company. The only problem is that it takes twenty-five years to play.”
• “I would rather be specific and wrong than vague and right.”
• "An inexperienced learner is thrown by frustration, but a good learner uses it."
• "What is taught is restricted by what can be taught."
• "Breaking down the artificial barriers between what we learn and what we do, between business and academics, and between understanding history and controlling our future, simulation development will be a defining 21st century industry."
• "Rather than using game genres, like first person shooter or real time strategy, there needs to be fifteen or twenty new simulation genres created, presumably open source, each of which focuses on one subject area, such as leadership, innovation, and project management."
• "The simulation interface is part of the content, not just a conduit to the content."
• "We are at a time in the history of education when everything can change. Our minds can be as well developed and nurtured as our bodies… the work of a few people will echo through the ages, changing the very wealth of nations."