WW: I read a lot of books, and occasionally those books, or certain subjects or approaches, become very interesting to me. Generally they’re not that accessible to the wider audience, so I’m trying to make it more accessible. It’s almost more of a translation function. I’ve always been interested in science, psychology, things like engineering and so I’m reading books in those general areas. Typically a lot of the interesting stuff happens at the intersections between fields. Academics are very tightly wound in their own little silos, the geologists over here, the biologists over there, and the chemists over here. And they never talk; they have different languages. But the really cool stuff is the stuff spanning all of these, and in a game we’re not bound by these academic departments. (via Gamasutra – Features – The Replay Interviews: Will Wright)