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Quotes About Simulation

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
It's one of the Filter theories. Absorption into simulations. Cultures swirling out of the universe like dirty water down a plug. Derealization vortices.
~ Unknown
Although Postmodernism was certainly a fad, it was also a Zeitgeist, or spirit of the times. It meant something, despite its own best efforts, at least as a symptom. The disappearance of reality that it announced was itself real, as was the realm of simulation that replaced it.
~ Unknown
At every stage of technique since Daedalus or Hero of Alexandria, the ability of the artificer to produce a working simulacrum of a living organism has always intrigued people.
~ Norbert Wiener
We also follow Peter Perla's insistence, in his The Art of Wargaming (1990), on using the contracted compound "wargaming" (not "war gaming") to represent the form's characteristic synthesis of topical simulation and ludic play.
~ Unknown
Jim Dunnigan, as we will see, calls them paper time machines.)
~ Unknown
The paradox was that the closer movies came to simulating reality, the worse they failed at representing the world - which is in us as much as it is around us.
~ Paul Auster
Some popular simulator programs include Electronics Workbench, CircuitMaker, and MicroSim/Pspice. Electronics Workbench and CircuitMaker are relatively easy to use, while Pspice is a bit more technical.
~ Unknown