“The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate.”— Seymour Papert
“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”— Jean Baudrillard
“It is the real, and not the map, whose vestiges persist here and there in the deserts which are no longer those of the Empire, but ours. The desert of the real itself.”— Jean Baudrillard