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Quotes About Artificial

Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?
~ Milan Kundera
We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.
~ Penn Jillette
Manufactured--synthetic--even virtual, if that is what you turned out to be--I would love you.
~ Sharon Shinn
I technically live in the desert - Los Angeles being an artificial oasis - but my interest stems even farther to my own ethnic roots and to my love of antiquity, of the Old World and of the east.
~ Vera Nazarian
I love California; everything is so artificial.
~ David Hockney
Project Amal could, if successful, give House Corrino a reliable, artificial source of melange, the most precious substance in the universe. But the damned Tleilaxu experiments were taking years too long, and the situation upset him more and more, with each passing month.
~ Brian Herbert
Towns do not develop here,' wrote Sarah Comstock, 'they are instantly created, synthetic communities of a strangely artificial world.
~ Carey McWilliams
There is nothing inhuman about an intelligent machine; it is indeed an expression of those superb intellectual capabilities that only human beings, of all the creatures on our planet, now possess.
~ Carl Sagan
The nice thing about artificial intelligence is that at least it's better than artificial stupidity.
~ Terry Pratchett
Granted, we never gave you a choice, but wouldn't you have agreed to transfer those dreams to us, knowing now what you could not know then? This sort of subjunctive calculus, nobody teaches in school. Artificial sleep, for example, "sleep for all"—who can say if we will achieve it? I keep roto-dialing strangers, begging for their surplus unconsciousness.
~ Karen Russell
They had left the demigod they now called the Voice in a government creche in orbit. The Archipelago had facilities for newly born artificial sentients—a revelation that still astonished and unsettled Marya when she thought about it. The Voice had gone willingly into the maw of the jewellike orbiting structure; as the doors closed she had looked back, but Marya could read nothing in her gaze—neither hope nor fear.
~ Karl Schroeder
There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world.
~ Karolina Kurkova
Pornography is to sex what McDonalds is to food. A plasticized, generic version of the real thing.
~ Gail Dines
maintenant qu'il connaissait cette douleur Muzil la craignait par-dessus tout, ça se lisait désormais dans son oeil la panique d'une souffrance qui n'est plus maîtrisée à l'intérieur du corps mais provoquée artificiellement par une intervention extérieure au foyer du mal sous prétexte de la juguler, il était lair que pour Muzil cette souffrance était plus abominable que sa souffrance intime, devenue familière
~ Hervé Guibert
other minds, must continue to fascinate us. As artificial people became more like us, then became us, then became more than us, we could never tire of them. They were bound to surprise us. They might fail us in ways that were beyond our imagining. Tragedy was a possibility, but not boredom.
~ Ian Mcewan
Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post. In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how artificial that closeness seemed now as they embarked on their small talk, their helpless catechism of polite query and response. As the distance opened up between them, they understood how far they had run ahead of themselves in their letters. This moment had been imagined and desired for too long, and could not measure up.
~ Ian Mcewan
I live in Los Angeles, which is the youngest place - there's no history to Los Angeles. Everything's fake.
~ Ben Feldman
I have been an 'Official' all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
~ William Allingham
I think you can be much truer to real emotions and reality by creating something that on the surface seems artificial but, by then putting everything together in the end, is much more impactful than trying to use realism in every individual element of the film.
~ Yorgos Lanthimos
I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.
~ Craig Newmark
The natural wants are few, and easily gratified: it is only those which are artificial that perplex us by their multiplicity.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Plastic people flashing fake smiles at a pretend world.
~ Steven James
The African versions were created by beings from a nomadic, artificial planet known as Niburu, or Marduk. These Reptilian-like beings travel in a manufactured world looping our solar system. The Sumerians called them Annunnakki.
~ Stewart A. Swerdlow
The deity had the light, melodramatic voice of an artificial being programmed by a religious fanatic.
~ Storm Constantine