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Quotes About Virtual

You see kids walking to the bus, and they're watching product on their phones. I'm positive that my grandkids and their grandkids are going to put on a pair of glasses and watch something.
~ Jeffrey Tambor
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
~ Alexandra Kosteniuk
I think 'World of Warcraft' shows that people today still like a good fantasy hack and slash game. I always thought that a lot of computer fantasy games leapt into complex party-based play somewhat prematurely.
~ John Carmack
I sorta worked out a few years ago that one of my favorite things to do in 'World of Warcraft' is look for things, to just spend the time flying around searching.
~ Kristian Nairn
There are people who have formed guilds in 'World of Warcraft' who may have played together for years before actually meeting, but because of the adventures they had together, they formed really deep-rooted friendships.
~ Mark Pincus
Most strikingly, 'World of Warcraft' allows you to live a veritable second life. Girls can pretend to be boys; boys can pretend to be girls; human accountants can pretend to be elven mages.
~ Jason Schreier
I don't play online games. 'Warcraft,' I've played that, but I mainly play action games.
~ Steven Spielberg
I play 'World of Warcraft,' which means I end up hanging out with teenage boys a lot.
~ Jane Goldman
I have more friends in 'World of Warcraft' than I do in real life!
~ Lights
As a massively multiplayer online RPG, 'The Old Republic' has no single-player components; you cooperate with and compete against other people in a virtual, persistently online recreation of the 'Star Wars' universe.
~ Jason Schreier
It's so easy to fall into ruts and niches in our real lives, and I want online worlds to offer us exotic experiences and interaction with people we wouldn't interact with otherwise, and a chance to try out lifestyles and worldviews we otherwise wouldn't have, a chance to try to solve problems that we find difficult to tackle in the real world. Otherwise, why bother making them?
~ Raph Koster
An e-bhoomi pujan can be done. The ground-breaking ceremony can be held through video-conference.
~ Uddhav Thackeray
Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.
~ Chrystia Freeland
It is true, I spend some of my leisure time in purchased sexual release, both real and virtual. Or, as you so elegantly put it, whorehouses.
~ Richard K. Morgan
The human race has dreamed of heaven and hell for millennia. Pleasure or pain unending, undiminished, and uncurtailed by the strictures of life or death. Thanks to virtual formatting, these fantasies can now exist. All that is needed is an industrial-capacity power generator. We have indeed made hell—and heaven—on earth.
~ Richard K. Morgan
nowadays, in the digital landscape, friends and followers have come to mean different, watered-down things. Many people know one another without knowing them at all. And are happy with that superficiality.
~ Julian Barnes
Electronic man has no physical body.
~ Marshall McLuhan
My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
~ Wayne Brady
On the Internet, everyone squats. In real life, the squat rack is always empty. You figure out what this means.
~ Steve Shaw
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become.
~ Jane McGonigal
Peace is a virtual mute sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
~ Paul Valery
When everything is social, suddenly nothing is.
~ Jean Baudrillard, Screened Out
VIRTUALITY ACTUALITYClassrooms in schools will give way to classes in rooms at homeKamil Ali
~ Kamil Ali, The Initiates
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
~ William Gibson