Go is to Western chess what philosophy is to double entry accounting.
– From Shibumi, bestseller by Trevanian
The difference between a stone played on one intersection rather than on an adjacent neighbor is insignificant to the uninitiated. The master of Go, though, sees it as all the difference between a flower and a cinderblock.
– From The Challenge of Go: Esoteric Granddaddy of Board Games, by Dave Lowry
While the Baroque rules of chess could only have been created by humans, the rules of go are so elegant, organic, and rigorously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost certainly play go.
– Edward Lasker
The board is a mirror of the mind of the players as the moments pass. When a master studies the record of a game he can tell at what point greed overtook the pupil, when he became tired, when he fell into stupidity, and when the maid came by with tea.
– Anonymous Go player
The Gourd Reborn 