Charles Stross Quotes

Facebook takes it as a core truth that sharing and connecting is a force that will improve the world.

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.

Cyberspace as a mode of being will never go away. We live in cyberspace.

I want to bring back the human encounter into places where material things have a prime status. In a museum, you're supposed to look at things and not talk to other people.

I enjoy the company of my fellow man and woman, and I do not wish to be sequestered away in any type of bubble.

I am a member of the human race. There's a certain irony about the cyberworld. You don't know who is talking to you, if it's a machine, so I tend to try to reach out to those fellow humans.

I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.

'Cyberspace' is a metaphorical idea which is supposed to be the space where your consciousness is located when you're using computer technology on the Internet, for example, and I'm not entirely sure it's such a useful term, but I think that's what most people mean by it.

These sites have torn down the geographical divide that once prevented long distance social relationships from forming, allowing instant communication and connections to take place and a virtual second life to take hold for its users.

Bridging the virtual world with the physical word is really when social media channels come to life and the magic happens. Because whoever coined the term 'social media' didn't do us any favors. It's not really media. It's more like the telephone, less like the TV.

When people ask what I'd like to do next, the answer is usually, 'Something with people in rooms.'

Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time.

We no longer have to capture the 'real world' and recreate it online. We simply live and communicate at the same time.

We started Roblox over a decade ago with a vision to bring people from all over the world together through play.

I think we've built a bit of a culture and a market around people who are open and seek out that social interaction.

People love to go closer to nature and other people, so we need to create environments that let people have these emotional connections.

It's true that Miitomo, at its core, aims to foster social engagement. That's what it's all about.

Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.

First and foremost, I want people on concerts to have a really great experience away from the negative press and negative stuff that you see on the news and Facebook. I don't even like seeing people's cell phones. Let's have a human experience and rub up against each other, you know.

We're no longer dealing in the world of the real in a truthful way. We're interacting with each other in shiny homepages. I don't think that makes for honest communication.

When I'm starting to feel, "How many more people are there?" I go slower. I ask questions, and that person engaging with me gives me energy.

The foundation of all civilization is loitering.

All real living is meeting.

The artist draws the people. The whole idea is for people to dig themselves, just mingle around meeting different other people. That's cool.

I do like Twitter. Writing is a solitary pursuit, and it can get lonely. I like to go into Twitter for a short period of time, communicate with clever friends, and then switch it off. That's perfect for me.