"A joke is a very serious thing." - Winston Churchill

"I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make." - Jane McGonigal

"Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation." - Nicholas Negroponte

"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same." - Sally Ride

"Wow! According to my computer simulation, it should be possible to create new life forms from common household chemicals" - Dibert

"All models are wrong, but some are useful" - George Box

"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise." — John Tukey

"Running simulations is very much like pleasuring yourself. Do it often enough, and it starts to feel better than the real thing." - Dr. George Rose (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)"