Quotes About Siri

I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.

Whenever I ask Siri for directions or a recommendation, I also ask her a trick question. Her answers are usually wacky. She scolds me for cursing, which I love, but she has no problem with ethics. If I say, 'Remind me to rob a bank at 3 P.M.,' she responds, 'Here's your reminder for today at 3 P.M.: Rob a bank. Shall I create it?'

Apple bought Siri from its creator, SRI (Stanford Research Institute) International, which had developed it with government funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) between 2003 and 2008.

After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can't or won't answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species?

AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

I'm sorry, I couldn't find "a good song" in your music. —Siri

Aggressive questions are usually pedagogic - that is, the answer has already been written in the mind of the questioner, who then waits with a reply. It's pretend listening.

He is a creature of will, and the beauty of his will overreaches the tawdriness of his real object: Daisy.

I found that air of menace more inspiring than upsetting

Awkward brilliance in a boy is more easily categorized, and it conveys no sexual threat.

My hope made me pathetic, but I comforted myself with the fact that I was my only witness.

Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

Siri has proven to us that people want to relate to the phone in a different way.

Extensive analysis was conducted before deciding whether consumers would respond better to a male or female imprisoned in their phone. Almost every country in the world had a female Siri programmed - but not, initially, in the UK and France.

Couples without kids have each other, their friends, families, and Siri to talk to. It's not like they're quarantining themselves in an underground bunker, never to take a romantic stroll on the beach or attend a Morrissey concert ever again. They're just using birth control.

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

From what Paul tells me," said the Monsignor, "the Consul was true to his convictions, faithful to the memory of his grandmother Siri.

Watching Siri and Dtui 'run' to the administration block would have saddened even the most benevolent of athletic coaches

You're Dr. Siri," said the soldier. "You took a chunk of shrapnel out of my knee once." "Well then." "No invitation, no entry. Sorry." "If I ran past you, do you think you could catch me?" "Yes." "Then the operation was a success." "Yes.