"in my quizzes I only ask the questions and am aware that the participants know more than I do. in fact I think that is true of all quizzes! all I see my job being is that of a pleasant conduit between the person who sets the questions and the person who tries to answer it"
says my man in an interview on some nondescript page, somewhere on the messy web.
Isn't that what all quizzes and quiz masters should be looking to achieve? In an ideal world, I am speaking.
and here is some more
"if people haven’t enjoyed themselves at the end, whether they have won or lost, I think I have lost"
Aaah! precisely that is what I have been trying to drive home ever since my Picket days. I have had harrowing moments convincing my partners right up to my college days as to how important, at least for me, it was to have a ball at quizzes. To have fun, to go up and down the emotional ladder in quizzes. Not to take anything seriously. Not to take yourself seriously. Not to let your ego come in way of immense amount of joy that you could get. Of course it was always fun ending up on the winning side, but when it came to having real fun, winning never ever mattered.
Never.