Charles Leclerc Quotes

Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself.

It is not as difficult as I thought it was, but it is harder than it is.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

That which makes people dissatisfied with their condition, is the chimerical idea they form of the happiness of others.

We think that computer models represent reality especially if we developed the models.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side.

The simulator is an object in itself, which is different from televison and leads to cyberspace.

A problem only exists if there is a difference between what is actually happening and what you desire to be happening.

More like the real thing,' said the lord Digory softly. - The Last Battle

Computer mediation seems to bathe action in a more conditional light: perhaps it happened; perhaps it didn't. Without the layeredrichness of direct sensory engagement, the symbolic medium seems thin, flat, and fragile.

I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts.

We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future?

Reality is the temporary resultant of continuous struggles between rival gangs of programmers.

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

Being virtually killed by a virtual laser in a virtual space is just as effective as the real thing, because you are as dead as you think you are.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality.

Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid of human emotion and detached from the reality of my unreal environment. I was an instrument in a virtual world that constantly renewed its own meaningless image in a living world that was itself perceived outside of nature. And since the appearance of things was no longer definitive but limitless, this paradisiacal awareness freed me from the reality external to myself. The fire and the rose, as it were, became one.

A picture is a model of reality.

Illusions are hazardous, and so are disillusions.

The "paradox" is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what reality "ought to be."

What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.

...dreams were dreams and reality was reality and she felt people were better off understanding the difference.

We seem to invest so much time and belief that those things are stable in some way - something to build towards, or something to use to better understand where we come from. So often those expectations are just so out of line with how the universe works. I don't see it as a productive way of seeing the world, so, when I deal with that stuff formally - or when I try to allow it to inspire me - I'm open to it twisting itself up.

Imagining something is better than remembering something.