Drake Quotes

I've had moments where it's like being in the Matrix.

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

Any real virtual reality enthusiast can look back at VR science fiction. It's not about playing games... 'The Matrix,' 'Snow Crash,' all this fiction was not about sitting in a room playing video games. It's about being in a parallel digital world that exists alongside our own, communicating with other people, playing with other people.

The most embarrassing part of the film is that the new problem posed by simulation is confused with its classical, Platonic treatment ... The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce.

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

I'm not completely sure we aren't all living in a hallucination now.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

This... is a synthetic world many of us live in today - a dream, if you will.

We found in 'The Matrix' that people were willing to accept something more. It was a smarter film.

When you put on the headset, you want to be tricked; you want your mind to believe you are actually teleported to this new virtual place.

Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.

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

If you think about 'The Matrix' and how high-concept it was, it had these incredible ideas that really penetrated people's consciousness. It really was a film of awakening. I think a lot of people woke up around that film.

I've always been a big fan of Philip K. Dick; I love his work. There's a returning theme of identity and the fragility of our identity. Even when we are looking at what we think is a stark reality, it might actually be something completely different.

We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in reality occurs. We have the overwhelming impression that we were reliving the present - deja vu.

If you have perfect virtual reality eventually, where you're be able to simulate everything that a human can experience or imagine experiencing, it's hard to imagine where you go from there.

This celebrity culture that hypnotizes people into thinking a person is literally not real because you see them on television is a spell the watcher him- or herself must break.

There are only two types of people in the world. There are the people who understand that this is a matrix, and then there are the people who buy it lock, stock and barrel.

Sometimes I think that we are living in a simulation controlled by the reigns of a destructive child who often gets bored or distracted, leaving us trapped inside feedback loops for years at a time.

Overall, looking at the stories [Black Mirror], almost every story we've ever done is concerned with authenticity or reality in some way.

Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination.

The visible universe was an illusion or, more precisely, a sophism. Mirrors and fatherhood are abominable because they multiply it and extend it.

M stands for Magic, Mystery, or Matrixaccording to taste

Welcome to the Desert of the Real.

Virtuality will destroy reality.