Robert J. Sawyer Quotes

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

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

Much of the excitement about virtual reality has come from the gaming community.

There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.

Movies are different from real life.

People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.

My favorite part is just being able to say and do things that you can't do in real life, and behaving in a way that's just not really acceptable, in the real world.

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

If you want to move through a virtual reality it’s called a video game, it’s been around forever.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.

Always trust computer games.

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.

Virtuality will destroy reality.

Apart from the faint odor of ink that pervaded the scene, it might have been real.

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.

"Well, it's no use your talking about waking him," said Tweedledum, "when you're only one of the things in his dream. You know very well you're not real."

If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

Dreams, you know, are what you wake up from.

Only the magic and the dream are true — all the rest's a lie.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

I had a dream, which was not at all a dream.

Illusion never changed into something real.

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

Hollywood, of course, is the city of illusion.