Deep Thoughts by Kevin Kelly

Over at TED, which has a lot of neat videos of talks on all sorts of subjects, Kevin Kelly made this observation:

Finite games are played to win; infinite games are played to keep playing

I find that profound on many levels: the inherent meaningless of life ('just keep playing the game'), the prisoner's dilemma (screw the other guy in single-period interactions), why being nice to friends and colleagues is a good idea (you want to 'keep playing').