Jaron Lanier:

There is no such thing as a neutral Internet leak organization. Anyone who plays the game brings biases into the work.

An exchange with Penelope Trunk:

She said, "It's not like that. There has to be a game or something."

I said, "Okay. You do the game. What should we do?"

She pouted. I did not realize it was part of the game.

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard:

China is trying to keep the game going as if nothing has changed, but cannot do so. It dares not raise rates fast enough to let air out of the bubble because this would expose the bad debts of the banking system. The regime is stymied.

Rahm Emanuel:

We have to play the game.

Economist:

Fighting and spying on the frontier is often described as a Great Game, after the 19th-century Russo-British sparring for which the phrase was coined. And on a five-day visit to South Waziristan in December as a guest of the FC--a rare privilege for a foreigner--and in interviews with Wazirs and Mehsuds in Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore, your correspondent was struck by how many used this phrase, speaking of the crises that periodically buffet the frontier as a "game", and themselves, through their alliances with one power or another, as "players". "It is all a great game," said Rehmat Mehsud, a Waziristani journalist. "The army, the Taliban, the ISI, they are all involved, and we don't know who is doing what."

Mehsuds consider Wazirs slow-witted, mercantile and untrustworthy--"If your right hand is a Wazir, cut it off," advises a Mehsud. Wazirs mainly consider Mehsuds as vagabonds and cattle-rustlers, often quoting as evidence for this a prayer that Mehsud women are said to chant to their infants: "Be a thief and may God go with you!" Mehsuds also quote this, to illustrate their people's cunning and derring-do.

Bethany McLean:

What Goldman doesn't get is that all the murk about the ways it has benefited from public money taps into a deep fear that has long existed among those who think they know Goldman all too well. It's a fear that, as one person puts it, Goldman's "skill set" is "walking between the raindrops over and over again and getting away with it." It is a fear that Goldman has the game rigged, even if no one can ever prove how, not just because of its political connections but also because of its immense size and power. And it is a belief that despite all the happy talk about clients and culture (and, boy, is there a lot of that) the Goldman of today cares about one thing and one thing only: making money for itself. Says one high-level Wall Street executive, "Why do you have a business? Because you have a customer. You have to make an appropriate profit. But is it possible that Goldman has changed from a firm that had customers to a company that is just smart as shit and makes a shitload of money?"

Jon Lee Anderson:

The air stinks heavily of raw sewage, but no one seems to notice.