Quotes About Artificial

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

Our hamburgers, made from the flesh of chemically impregnated cattle, had been broiled over counterfeit charcoal, placed between slices of artificially flavored cardboard and served to us by recycled juvenile delinquents

Life isn't stable. Stability is unnatural. The only stable society is the police state. You can have a free society or you can have a stable society. You can't have both. Take your choice. As for me, I'll choose a free, organic society over a rigid, artificial society any day.

History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory.

Artificial pleasures arrive stillborn; they have no life of their own.

You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin

The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.

All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values

I don't want to be human." Dr. Mensah said, "That's not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human." "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

The good thing about being a construct is that you can't reproduce and create children to argue with you.

When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can't put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security for anything without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

It's not a baby, it's a copy of me, made with code." Amena folded her arms and looked intensely skeptical. "That you and ART made together, with code. Code which both of you are also made out of.

I'm programmed to help humans." Eyebrow lift again. "You're not programmed to watch media." She had a point.

This is why I'm glad I'm not human. They come up with stuff like this. I said, "No. That's a human thing to do. Constructs aren't that stupid.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

We have an unfounded fear that machines will someday start thinking like humans. What we should really fear is that humans have already started thinking like machines.

I think I was always interested in the larger world, even as a kid, and my experiences as a journalist only heightened that interest. Covering conflict, I learned that though leaders often try to create a sense of "us" and "them," the differences are not that delineated. I often felt like it was a whole bunch of "us," with some of "them" scattered around. That made me feel that the borders we draw around ourselves are often artificial.

Ea îmi picur?-n vene stropi de cer artificial, m? preface în pas?re de pânz?.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

The concept of Nature does not evoke only the residue of what had not been constructed by me, but also a productivity which is not ours, although we can use it--that is, an originary productivity that continues beneath the artificial creations of man. It both partakes of the most ancient, and is something always new.

Does it not occur to people that I might be artificial by nature?

Decadent cooks go one step further and make sculptures of the food itself. If life is to be spent in pursuit of the extravagant, the extreme, the grotesque, the bizarre, then one's diet should reflect the fact. Life, meals, everything must be as artificial as possible - in fact works of art. So why not begin by eating a few statues?

It was a doll's smile. Plastic. She added a head-tilt and blank gaze.