General Washington had rather incautiously encamped the bulk of his army on Long Island - a large and plentiful district about two miles from the city of New York.


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People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is goi...
WARREN SPECTOR
I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit ...
WARREN SPECTOR
My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s...
WARREN SPECTOR
I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.
WARREN SPECTOR
The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pal...
WARREN SPECTOR
Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rule...
WARREN SPECTOR
As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be ou...
WARREN SPECTOR
When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
WARREN SPECTOR
The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting the...
WARREN SPECTOR
If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals ...
WARREN SPECTOR
I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.
WARREN SPECTOR
Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have ...
WARREN SPECTOR
I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
WARREN SPECTOR
Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt o...
WARREN SPECTOR
I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or...
WARREN SPECTOR
Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and...
WARREN SPECTOR
I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
WARREN SPECTOR
In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
WARREN SPECTOR
We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That'...
WARREN SPECTOR
You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.
WARREN SPAHN
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
WARREN SPAHN
Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off i...
WARREN SPAHN
A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.
WARREN SPAHN
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one betwee...
WARREN SPAHN
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
WARREN SPAHN
A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about...
WARREN SPAHN
And if you do all you can, that's all you can ever do.
WARREN RUDMAN
If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airport...
WARREN RUDMAN
It was a bad idea, because I think that any government reorganization has to come in relatively smal...
WARREN RUDMAN
Significant steps have been taken since 9-11 to protect out country here at home, but much remains t...
WARREN RUDMAN
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of ...
WARREN RUDMAN
Washington, D.C., has a much greater risk than Manchester, N.H. They both need some level of funding...
WARREN RUDMAN
We have to make a determination of what the minimum standards are for police, fire and emergency ser...
WARREN RUDMAN
Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's ta...
WARREN RUDMAN
And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear at...
WARREN RUDMAN
Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
WARREN RUDMAN
We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.
WARREN RUDMAN
The president's very right about one thing: When you have a disaster of that scale, whether it b...
WARREN RUDMAN
The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the commu...
WARREN RUDMAN
This may sound trite, but bad things happen to good people, and when you're facing terrorism, na...
WARREN RUDMAN
If you have a major disaster involving hundreds of thousands, or in this case millions of people, wh...
WARREN RUDMAN
When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight a...
WARREN MOON