Scott Westerfeld Quotes

Television and movies have short-circuited reality. I don't think a lot of people are entirely clear on what is real and what is on the screen.

You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.

It is now such a complex society in terms of media. It just comes at us from every direction. You kind of have to push it all away.

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and abandoned for some new novelty.

You turn on the news, there're no facts anymore. 'Here's what's happening today,' and then you cut to thirty minutes of people in little boxes, little windows, telling you their opinions on it. It seems like all the news is going on in the ticker-tape on the bottom of the news. It's all opinion, it's all editorial.

If you sign up for TV, expect the edit to make things interesting.

Selfishness is blind.

There are those who believe a liberal or a conservative bias permeates the media. I don't. The operative press bias is one that favors conflict, not ideology, and it is lashed by a market-driven bias to boost ratings or circulation with more wow stories, more sizzle.

I am not a person who is about reality. I am about enhanced reality.

The media know exactly what they're doing, focusing our attention on Arsenio's hairdo. We need to keep our brains brimming with rubbish. If we didn't, we might think about things.

Let us say it now: to be blind and to be loved, is indeed, upon this earth where nothing is complete, one of the most strangely exquisite forms of happiness.

The blind see what they want to see.

It's purely and simply the unfair media.They want the story to stay alive as long as possible.

She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.

No matter how much you keep encouraging someone who is blindfolded to stare through the cloth, he still won’t see a thing.".

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.

Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

I just think that a much more important part of the problem we face, which was evident 10 years ago and is even more evident now, is that the way we share information among ourselves as American citizens has been radically transformed. The line between news and entertainment has almost dissolved, where ratings now have a big impact on what kinds of stories are covered and not stories.

I think if you look at the statistics and you deal with fake media - and fake media and distorted media is a continuum - the vast majority of the population says, "I don't know what to believe." There are no checks and balances in quality control.

You can play with the reality and the 3D is a tool to play with it.

Blind people can stay up longer than someone with eyes.

The artificial world that we create through images will essentially become real.

Perhaps only in a world of the blind will things be what they truly are.

I was having the surreal experience of having myself show myself around my office and bullpen.” “Oh! My desk. I could’ve sat at my desk. I could’ve sat at your desk.” “No.” “It’s a vid set.” “Even then, no.

Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this.