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Virtual reality has nothing on Calvin. -- Bill Watterson
Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large. -- Robert J. Sawyer
Virtual Reality for Formula One could be fantastic - driving the car! -- Martin Sorrell
Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists. -- Joan Lowery Nixon
Virtual sex, no matter how realistic, was really nothing but glorified, computer-assisted masturbation. -- Ernest Cline
Virtual business out sources all the work and in sources all the profits. -- Mark Victor Hansen
Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. -- Tom Boellstorff
Cyberspace is an accident of the real. Virtual reality is the accident of reality itself. -- Paul Virilio
Virtual Reality is going to be an important technology. I am pretty confident about this. -- Mark Zuckerberg
Virtual representation is so absurd as to not deserve an answer. I therefore pass it over with contempt. -- Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
Virtual reality might be able to give you a way of doing hands-on to construct ideas in a computer. -- Owsley Stanley
Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape. -- Ryan Holmes
[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system. -- Ben Bernanke
I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it. -- Martin Sorrell
During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that. -- Daniel Webster
Virtual Piggy was created to provide a safe way for kids to shop online with parental approval, in recognition of growing digital world kids live in. -- Jo Webber
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to reality. Virtual reality can imprison people. -- Hayao Miyazaki
We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet. -- Larry Ellison
Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance. -- Tom Boellstorff
Virtual simulations allow post-traumatic stress disorder sufferers to re-experience the events that traumatized them, and then slowly desensitize themselves to their impact through repeated recreations involving not just sight and sound but even smell. -- Douglas Rushkoff
You can't truly hear your own voice until the shouting around you disappears. New ideas and possibilities - our own ideas, our own possibilities - will occur only when we step away from the Virtual Panopticon. -- John Twelve Hawks
Virtual reality is the representation of possible worlds and possible selves, with the aim of making them appear as real as possible - ideally, by creating a subjective sense of "presence" and full immersion in the user. -- Thomas Metzinger
Virtual-reality researchers have long struggled to eliminate effects that distort the brain's normal processing of visual information, and when these effects arise in equipment that augments or mediates the real world, they can be that much more disturbing. -- Steve Mann
Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures. -- Mark Zuckerberg
[Formula One racing] will be very different - as the technology will be very different and that will make fans consume it in a completely different way. I said before that I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. -- Martin Sorrell
Neural implants could accomplish things no external interface could: Virtual and augmented reality with all five senses; augmentation of human memory, attention, and learning speed; even multi-sense telepathy - sharing what we see, hear, touch, and even perhaps what we think and feel with others. -- Ramez Naam
We passed a bill in 1997, signed by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles, which created a pilot program for a novel experiment called Florida Virtual School. The notion of children using a computer for a classroom and reporting to virtual teachers wasn't exactly mainstream thinking in those days. -- Daniel Webster
The true value of having Florida Virtual School in this mix is that it creates a gold standard for all providers to meet if they hope to compete for Florida students. This program raises the bar for everybody, even the traditional public schools. And that benefits all our children. -- Daniel Webster
In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide. -- Thornton Wilder
Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software. -- Larry Ellison
I like live audiences, with real people - virtual reality is no substitute. -- Hillary Clinton
I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems. -- Ken Thompson
A meticulous virtual copy of the human brain would enable basic research on brain cells and circuits or computer-based drug trials. -- Henry Markram
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just 'virtual reality.' -- Martin Rees
Photography is a kind of virtual reality, and it helps if you can create the illusion of being in an interesting world. -- Steven Pinker
The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense. -- Ray Kurzweil
It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else. -- Noam Chomsky
Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness. -- James D. Watson
In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset. -- Nick Woodman
I'm certainly not opposed to digital technology, whose graces I daily enjoy and rely on in so many ways. But I worry about our virtual blinders. -- Diane Ackerman
They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. -- Jeremy Rifkin
Cyber terrorism could also become more attractive as the real and virtual worlds become more closely coupled, with automobiles, appliances, and other devices attached to the Internet. -- Dorothy E. Denning
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
The physicality of a real relationship - one that encompasses mind, body and soul - ultimately makes it more fulfilling and powerful than any virtual relationship ever could be. -- Henry Cloud
The park achieved a kind of reality. Like these virtual reality games the children are playing with. I told them we were doing this 40 years ago! Disneyland is virtual reality. -- John Hench
Unlike 'real relationships', 'virtual relationships' are easy to enter and to exit. They look smart and clean, feel easy to use, when compared with the heavy, slow-moving, messy real stuff. -- Zygmunt Bauman
When I was growing up, my house was filled with books. My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener. -- Jeff Kinney
I started looking at small companies that were running a sort of virtual reality cottage industry: I had imagined that I would just put on a helmet and be somewhere else - that's your dream of what it's going to be. -- Thomas Dolby
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. -- Amy Jo Martin
The video game culture was an important thing to keep alive in the film because we're in a new era right now. The idea that kids can play video games like Grand Theft Auto or any video game is amazing. The video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. -- Vin Diesel
Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated. -- Amy Jo Martin
For most people, an hour a day playing our favorite games will power up our ability to engage whole-heartedly with difficult challenges, strengthen our relationships with the people we care about most - while still letting us notice when it's time to stop playing in virtual worlds and bring our gamer strengths back to real life. -- Jane McGonigal
I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. -- Kevin Mitnick
Remember the movie 'The Matrix,' where virtual information popped up to help inform physical day-to-day reality? Such things won't always be the stuff of Hollywood. If the Internet is accessible via contact lenses, biographies will appear next to the faces of the people we talk to, and we will see subtitles if they speak a foreign language. -- Michio Kaku
Cultures are virtual realities made of language. -- Terence McKenna
We don't need virtual reality, we need virtual unreality. -- Peter Greenaway
Seek the companionship of virtuous friends, not virtual friends. -- Elaine S. Dalton
What worries me is that now, communication is virtual. -- Franca Sozzani
I'm a virtual worker. I'm not tied to an office. -- Jochen Zeitz
When virtual reality gets cheaper than dating, society is doomed. -- Scott Adams
One day the virtual world might win over the real world. -- Paul Virilio
Video games are one step before a whole other virtual universe. -- Vin Diesel
This virtual reality stuff is the technological equivalent, really, of psychedelics. -- Jerry Garcia
I really believe that the virtual world mirrors the physical world. -- Marissa Mayer
Any virtual community that works, works because people put in some time. -- Howard Rheingold
We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas. -- Michael Crichton
The uncreated and the dead exist solely in our actual and virtual pasts. -- David Mitchell
It's not virtual reality until you can be tortured to death in it. -- Andrew Plotkin
Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds -- Paul Valery
Once you have perfect virtual reality, what else are you supposed to perfect? -- Palmer Luckey
It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment. -- David Deutsch
Because what's the point of something virtual if it doesn't end up being real? -- David Levithan
I think [the virtual choir] speaks well to a benevolent future for the Internet. -- Eric Whitacre
We live in imaginary, virtual worlds created by corporations that profit from our deception. -- Chris Hedges
Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you. -- Sharon Shinn
No 22-year-old should have to enter the real world already in a virtual debtors' prison. -- Michael Moore
I think that in an increasingly virtual world, lovingly produced artefacts are at a premium. -- Alan Moore
Nanotechnology has been moving a little faster than I expected, virtual reality a little slower. -- Nick Bostrom
Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. -- John Maeda
How do you keep war accountable to the American people when war becomes invisible and virtual? -- Michael Ignatieff
Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media. -- Noam Chomsky
Tribeca has always celebrated the most exciting new forms of storytelling, from video games to virtual reality. -- Jane Rosenthal
Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits. -- Stephen Young
Does virtual intimacy degrade our experience of the other kind and, indeed, of all encounters, of any kind? -- Sherry Turkle
It's too late by the way, with virtual reality. You can't put the genie back into the bottle. -- Howard Rheingold
I am Michael, and I am part English, Irish, German, and Scottish, sort of a virtual United Nations. -- Michael Scott
We owe a lot to the Internet, for introducing people to technology and virtual space and what not. -- Frank Pearce
If you want to move through a virtual reality it's called a video game, it's been around forever. -- James Cameron
It would be nice if we could design a virtual reality in Hyperbolic Space, and meet each other there. -- Donald Knuth
There was a very consistent creation of a virtual reality, and eventually it collided with our old-fashioned, ordinary reality. -- Hans Blix
Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant. -- Peter Diamandis
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings. -- Raymond Arroyo
As part of the National Strategy, the Government should commit itself to the virtual elimination of functional illiteracy and innumeracy. -- May-Britt Moser
In the [John F.] Kennedy case, I believe the absence of a conspiracy can be proved to a virtual certainty. -- Vincent Bugliosi
I'd really love to work with virtual reality at some point. You could make a killer adventure game with that. -- Jane Jensen
Crucial to science education is hands-on involvement: showing, not just telling; real experiments and field trips and not just virtual reality. -- Martin Rees
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. -- Jason Epstein
We are now able to create virtual realities on computers. Are we all living in one created by someone in the future? -- Greg Fitzsimmons
The technologies of virtual reality are attempting to make us see from beneath, from inside, from behind... as if we were God. -- Paul Virilio
We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do? -- Warren Spector
Practice beauty appreciation in as many places as possible. Nature provides a virtual smorgasbord of miracles. See the beauty in all of it. -- Wayne Dyer
An overly expansive virtual 'toll' for the Internet that blocks consumers' and competitors' access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer. -- Marsha Blackburn
The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs. -- Mike Shinoda
The advantages of a virtual production pipeline are that you can reduce the footprint of your production down to the size of the stage. -- Rick Heinrichs
Now with social media, people essentially come into my living room, my virtual living room, and tell me everything that is wrong with me. -- Jen Lancaster
For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can. -- Eric Whitacre
With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. -- Thomas E. Mann
A whole new series of technologies like biotechnology, virtual reality, and super-computerization are appearing now that are leading us away from our nature-based roots. -- Chellis Glendinning
As the Internet of things advances, the very notion of a clear dividing line between reality and virtual reality becomes blurred, sometimes in creative ways. -- Geoff Mulgan
The only thing that is fundamental (real) is consciousness itself; all else is virtual- i.e., a result of an exchange of information within consciousness. -- Thomas Campbell
Physical presence provides chemical, relational, psychological and physiological effects that virtual relationships cannot. Our brains change in the presence of another person and their behavior. -- Henry Cloud
Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering. -- Richard Dawkins
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. -- John Dykstra
We're not sure that if there's chemical weapon used and who used it. We can't talk about virtual things, we have to talk about facts. -- Bashar al-Assad
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune -- Susanne Katherina Langer
The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real. -- Gaston Bachelard
The creation of a virtual image is a form of accident. This explains why virtual reality is a cosmic accident. It's the accident of the real. -- Paul Virilio
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space." -- Jonathan Lethem
Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes. -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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