The game seemed to be missing opportunities left and right, ignoring three decades of collective game design wisdom and failing to explain why.
They drew on religious wisdom and rhetoric to explain their cause.
Sam Sheridan, author of A Fighter's Heart and its sequel, A Fighter's Mind, has more wisdom to share, explaining hunting-gathering techniques: "You have half a second and you eat and you will survive, and if you blow it you are dead".
Several speakers quoted Jimi Hendrix, who once noted, "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens," to try to explain Jim Gray's special qualities.
The sutra climaxes both dramatically and philosophically when the bodhisattva of wisdom, Mañjuśrī, asks Vimalakīrti to explain the meaning of nonduality and Vimalakīrti responds by simply remaining silently and unwaveringly present.
And -- thank God! -- everything that President-elect Obama has done since his acceptance speech has confirmed his wisdom, humble demeanor, ability to explain and that ineffable spiritual quality of leadership that, simply put, makes those being led feel better.
And some use an old-fashioned word to explain why: wisdom.
Even the Internet and its collective wisdom has not been able to explain the meaning of Fez's monolith.
The rabbi had started the romp with that simple statement, trying to explain that wisdom was in the text for the taking.
So it is perhaps no surprise that the fruits of all these labors should be rather baroque: the two leading members of the Vienna Jewish community hurling insults at each other, lawsuits flying back and forth, anti-Semitic innuendo making a comeback and the government hard pressed to explain the wisdom of its efforts in the run-up to the municipal elections in Vienna today.
