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Quotes About Artificial

I never sleep. Like the dolphin and the spiny anteater, I don't experience REM. Unlike the dreamless mammals, I'm a construct. I am a living program inside a vast network of electronic impulses known as the LINK. In that datastream I've uncovered the meaning of another kind of dreaming--that of a fond hope or aspiration, a yearning, a desire, or a passion. This much I have. When I dream, I dream of Mecca.
~ Unknown
True poetry is composed of metaphors and symbols which are born in the heart, rise like clouds, and assume a celestial form; verses formed otherwise are not poetry, but only artificial words, each of which contradicts the feelings inside. The utterances and words that have not been formed in a person's soul as the voice of conscience are all hollow, no matter how embellished they are or how dazzling they seem to be.
~ Unknown
summer of 1956, the Dartmouth conference has subsequently become famous as the event that finally established artificial intelligence as a field in its own right and gave it the name that has stuck.
~ Unknown
M. Mitchell Waldrop
~ John McCarthy
Spain as a modern centralized nation is an illusion, a very unfortunate one; for the present atrophy, the desolating resultlessness of a century of revolution, may very well be due in large measure to the artificial imposition of centralized government on a land essentially centrifugal.
~ John Dos Passos
Zilele de naÅŸtere sunt - ca ÅŸi s?rb?torile Cr?ciunului - pline de decepÅ£ii. O veselie artificial?, confecÅ£ionat? din vreme, un revolver la tâmpl?, cu îndemnul: Dezl?nÅ£uie-te! Bucur?-te!
~ John Galsworthy
Rene Harrop's Green Drake Biot Emerger, a
~ John Gierach
Jenny felt that her education was merely a polite way to bide time, as if she were really a cow, being prepared only for the insertion of the device for artificial insemination. Her
~ John Irving
Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.
~ Grace Jones
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
~ Ivan Illich
But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand.
~ Marcel Proust
After the suicide of my thoughts, they admired my intelligence; they doted on my mind. My parched imagination, my dried-up sensitivity were enough for the people who were the thirstiest for an intellectual life—their thirst being as artificial and mendacious as the source from which they believed they were quenching it!
~ Marcel Proust
With no significant political forces opposing the conversion of our world into a universal marketplace, the conflict of our time is the struggle to retain one's humanity in an increasingly artificial world. That is the only battle that retains any genuine significance from a traditional perspective.
~ Unknown
Artificial methodizing of spiritual truths may make men ready in notions, cunning and subtile in disputations; but it is the Scripture itself that is able to "make us wise unto salvation.
~ John Owen
It's time to get you into your crawl space, if you want to be at the negotiations tomorrow without a hangover. He stood up and offered his hand to Lowen. She took it, wobbling only slightly. Whoa, she said. Someone did something to the artificial gravity. Yes, Wilson said. That's it exactly.
~ John Scalzi
ex machina. I
~ John Scalzi
Artificial Intelligence leaves no doubt that it wants its audiences to enter a realm of pure fantasy when it identifies one of the last remaining islands of civilization as New Jersey.
~ Godfried Danneels
We live in an age of artificial scarcity, maintained by ignorance and fear.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Even in his most artificial creations, nature is the material upon which man has to work.
~ Marcel Proust
Prayer does not use up artificial energy, doesn't burn up any fossil fuel, doesn't pollute. Neither does song, neither does love, neither does the dance
~ Margaret Mead
Just because food is served fast doesn't mean it has to be made with cheap raw ingredients, highly processed with preservatives and fillers and stabilizers and artificial colors and flavors.
~ Steve Ells
Banquet: a plate of cold, hairy chicken and artificially coloured green peas completely surrounded by dreary speeches and appeals for donations.
~ Bennett Cerf
Simple natural food is far better than sophisticated food with artificial flavors.
~ Unknown
Stories of friendship are very interesting to me. Artificial families are something I like to explore. Whether it's a bunch of guys or a bunch of ladies, there's something interesting about that.
~ David Ayer