Simulation Quotes

“The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic universe.”

“The whole universe is a computer—a single computer.”

“The computer is the Proteus of machines. Its essence is its universality, its power to simulate.”

“A simulation is a representation of a system over time.”

“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.”

“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.”

“The very definition of the real has become: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction.”

“Everything is destined to reappear as simulation. Landscapes as photography, women as the sexual scenario, thoughts as writing, terrorism as fashion and the media, events as television.”