Frank stared at her. "But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters." Iris looked horrified. "Oh, they're not Ding Dongs." She rummaged under… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Epcot Center also features pavilions built by various foreign nations, where you can experience an extremely realistic simulation of what life in… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Though I know that he had something to do with the attack simulation, and with all those deaths, I find it difficult… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
I hold the gun out from my body, my arms straight, just as Four taught me, when that was his only name.… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
Weightlessness was unbelievable. It's physical euphoria: Nothing about you has any weight. You don't realize that you are weighed down all the… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Conservatism is constitutionally opposed to public reason, and this explains the abandon with which so many conservative pundits embrace flagrant simulations of… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
The Blue Brain project expects to have a full human-scale simulation of the cerebral cortex by 2018. I think that's a little… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“This ‘reality’ is so obviously unreal. It’s like bad screenplay writing. No matter how many times you see the same tired script… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Photography is a great adventure in thinking and looking, a wonderful magic toy that miraculously manages to combine our adult awareness with… — Luigi Ghirri Copy Share Image
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
As I go clowning my sentimental way into eternity, wrestling with all my problems of estrangement and communion, sincerity and simulation, ambition… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I see a kind of thirst in her expression, the same one I saw when she told me about her brother in… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real… — Lynn Steen Copy Share Image
A good simulation, be it a religious myth or scientific theory, gives us a sense of mastery over experience. To represent something… — Heinz Pagels Copy Share Image
The best simulator for spacewalking is underwater - it allows full visuals and body movement in 3D. Virtual reality is good, too,… — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit… — Brian Sutton-Smith Copy Share Image
The body has a dimension of simulation. The learning process, for instance: when one learns how to drive a car or a… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
The first human-to-computer uploads of 2100 will prove that a perfect simulation is the thing being simulated - that a silicon soul… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People make fun of cybersex, but it's really something to take into account: it is a drama, a split of the human… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
I wonder if we are seeing a return to the object in the science-based museum. Since any visitor can go to a… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
