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Quotes About Artificial

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.
~ James Harvey Robinson
All the things that most people hate about traveling -- the recycled air, the artificial lighting, the digital juice dispensers, the cheap sushi -- are warm reminders that I'm home.
~ Ryan Bingham
How prone poor Humanity is to dam up the minutest remnants of its freedom, and build an artificial roof to prevent it looking up to the clear blue sky.
~ E. T. A. Hoffmann
Why is it lemon juice contains mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?
~ Steven Wright
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
~ James Wolcott
Because let's face it: Goals are fake. Nearly all of them are artificial targets set for the sake of setting targets. These made-up numbers then function as a source of unnecessary stress until they're either achieved or abandoned. And when that happens, you're supposed to pick new ones and start stressing again. Nothing ever stops at the quarterly win. There are four quarters to a year. Forty to a decade. Every one of them has to produce, exceed, and beat EXPECTATIONS.
~ Jason Fried
Goals are fake. Nearly all of them are artificial targets set for the sake of setting targets. These made-up numbers then function as a source of unnecessary stress until they're either achieved or abandoned
~ Jason Fried
Artificial culture is paint. Real culture is patina.
~ Jason Fried
Il y a l'intelligence artificielle, il y a aussi la connerie naturelle.
~ Edgar Morin
Though usually adroit enough where her own interests were concerned, she made the mistake, not uncommon to persons in whom the social habits are instinctive, of supposing that the inability to acquire them quickly implies a general dulness. Because a bluebottle bangs irrationally against a window-pane, the drawing-room naturalist may forget that under less artificial conditions it is capable of measuring distances and drawing conclusions with all the accuracy needful to its welfare...
~ Edith Wharton
To see oneself in print is one of the strongest artificial passions of an age corrupted by books. But it requires courage, nevertheless, to venture on a public exhibition of one's productions.
~ Alexander Herzen
We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons...
~ Alfred E. Newman
Disco music can only take you so far because it's plastic.
~ Wilson Pickett
I'm obsessed with plastic. I like the syntheticness.
~ Mika
There are no coincidences in 'Westworld.'
~ Lisa Joy
There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.
~ Fred Armisen
I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness.
~ Iain Banks
My view is that the bitcoin is in its very early days, and it is an artificial currency. But whether it is creating new money, whether it is sustainable, whether it would survive - I have many questions about it.
~ Uday Kotak
Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.
~ Gertrude Stein
Nightlife is, to me, a little synthetic, a little desperate?
~ Julia Fox
The highest type of leadership maintains itself by its intrinsic worth, sans panoply, pomp and power. Of course, there are never enough real leaders to go around. Wherefore it becomes necessary to dress some men up and by other artificial means to give them a prestige and a power which they could not win by their own resources.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
The men of today boast of the ever growing extent of the modifications they impose on the world, and the consequence is that everything is thereby made more and more 'artificial'…
~ Rene Guenon
Laughter produces endomorphins that are an important part of changing your mind. The more you laugh at what you're afraid of, the more chemicals go into your body. Even if it's artificial laughter, it doesn't matter. If you can stop now and look at the same picture in your mind that scared you and not be afraid, then you're ready for the next step. So, get up from your chair and go out and test it and test it and test it and, bit by bit, it will simply disappear.
~ Richard Bandler
One would say that, instead of a tendency to equality in human beings, the tendency is to make the most of inequalities, natural or artificial.
~ Richard Henry Dana Jr.