I lost the attribution, but I suspect the following comes from Brad King and John Borland’s book, just like the previous quote about video games:
If developers push the envelope too far, then they make it tempting for politicians to jump on an absolutely no-lose issue.
If I remember correctly, this was reported by King and Borland among the comments posted on some video game community board after the Columbine shooting.
While tidying up my desk today, I came across a quote I had noted down a few years ago, while translating into Italian Dungeons & Dreamers: The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic, by Brad King and John Borland.
Here is a [slightly edited] version:
I’ve been playing video games all my life and NEVER ONCE has it affected me. Maybe you were affected cause you’ve got your head stuck up your [BEEP]. By the way, bash Vice City or any other game one more time and I’m gonna come down to your wacko office and shove that biased report card so far down your throat you’ll be [BEEP] corrupt soccer moms until next Christmas.
So what do you think. Do video games make people happier?
According to the commonly available instructions, installing WordPress is a matter of five minutes. I have found this to be not exactly true, and had in fact to go through a lot of troubles and tribulations before reaching the point, today, where some sort of blog could be made available on the Web.
After investing a significative number of hours in research and experiments, I am beginning to get a good grasp on the intricacies of choosing and installing some kind of blogging software. So as time allows, I will be publishing here a series of tutorials, which I hope will help people like me (i.e., non-programmers) install a Weblog application on your Website.
Because WordPress is the first blog I have attempted to install, I will of course start from my own version of the (in)famous WordPress 5-minute install.
The first tutorial I am working on is called:
More to come… 
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