#ow

I don't really believe in 'directions' in art; the rope twists as you follow it, that's all. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#believe #directions #follow #i #really

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#games #grown #had #inform #into

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! ↗

— Graham Nelson

#anything #been #better #eventually #first

For a fortnight nobody at all emailed me, or posted a follow-up. Doesn't anyone care, I thought? It turned out my newsreader was broken, and hadn't posted at all. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#broken #care #emailed #follow-up #fortnight

If you're setting a game during the Cuban Missile Crisis, look through a library. find out what people were wearing, what other issues were in the news, how houses were furnished, what cars were being driven. Especially include things which now seem foreign. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#cars #crisis #cuban #cuban missile crisis #driven

The most frequent complaint is that it's hard. True. it's a hard game to win Also, many people ask me how to use the secret debugging commands, apparently under the impression that I'll tell them. ↗

— Graham Nelson

#apparently #ask #commands #complaint #debugging

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#considerations #duty #give #great #great business

If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#certain #consults #fight #fighting #hands

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#arm #better #haste #his #i

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#death #disgrace #dreadful #envied #glorious