Social Simulation Quotes & Sayings

you have any idea of what you are going to do? — Nether Boy

People are alive and appreciate what that means. At least I hope you do because other — Stephen Chbosky

In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph. — Thomas Carlyle

But the fact that most of the show you can't be prepared for, you have no idea really what's coming is initially very nerve wracking, by now, it's kind of fun. — Brian Henson

Seeing the small is called Clarity.
Keeping flexible is called Strength.
Using the shining Radiance,
You enter the Light,
Where no harm can come to you.
This is called Enlightenment. — Laozi

As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: Elegance is not worth that price. — John Lewis Gaddis

Turkle recounts the story of Marcia, a tenth grader she interviewed about Sim City. Marcia had developed a set of guidelines for playing the game, including this one: "Raising taxes always leads to riots."46 Turkle worries gravely about Marcia's inability to conceive of a simulation in which the rules would differ, in which, for example, "increased taxes led to increased productivity and social harmony."" Turkle calls for a new kind of literacy that would teach Marcia and her peers how to develop a reading competency of simulation. — Ian Bogost

We're presently in the midst of a third intellectual revolution. The first came with Newton: the planets obey physical laws. The second came with Darwin: biology obeys genetic laws. In today's third revolution, were coming to realize that even minds and societies emerge from interacting laws that can be regarded as computations. Everything is a computation. — Rudy Rucker

Since the forthcoming write-up of my Ph.D. dissertation was much in my mind, it was the work of a moment to begin a solemn dissertation containing all the stigmata of academic turgidity about a substance which dissolved in water 1.12 seconds before you added the water. — Isaac Asimov

My whole life had split in two: Smith and not Smith. I liked the Smith parts of it so much better.
— Sarra Manning

It is from the death of the social that socialism will emerge, as it is from the death of God that religions emerge. — Jean Baudrillard

Shouldn't you be looking at other cars? You know, car shopping usually involves ... shopping."
"I don't shop very well", Grace said. "I just see what I need and get it. — Maggie Stiefvater

I have always moved by intuition alone. I have no system, literary or political. I have no guiding political idea. — V.S. Naipaul

I want to sell tracks but at the same time I want to stay true to the music I like. This is why I love the underground scene because they can stay true to what they want to do. — Rahki

Knowing that you have working with you a force, which never yet has failed in anything it has undertaken, you can go ahead in the confident knowledge that it will not fail in your case, either. — Robert Collier

So, there is no longer striking, nor work, but both simultaneously, that is to say something else: a magic of work, a trompel'oeil, a scenodrama (so as not to say a melodrama) of production, a collective dramaturgy on the empty stage of the social. — Jean Baudrillard