Artificial Quotes

• You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

  Russell Brand

  Ideas, People, Feels

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• I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.

  Alan Turing

  Believe, Thinking, Machines

  "Computing Machinery and Intelligence". Mind - A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy, Volume 59, No. 236, p. 442, 1950.

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• Mankind is divided into two classes: those who, being artificial, praise nature, and those who, being natural, praise art.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Class, Two

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Mortals and Others, Volume I: American Essays 1931-1935”, p.24, Routledge

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• The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life.

  Scott Jurek

  Grace, Attention, World

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.105, A&C Black

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• Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder. This disease, like caries and many other ailments, is prevalent only among civilized races living under artificial conditions; barbarous nations breathing pure air and eating simple food enjoy immunity from its ravages. It is sometimes fatal, but more frequently to the physician than to the patient.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Simple, Temporary Insanity

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.155, University of Georgia Press

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• Because of jealousy you are in constant suffering; you become mean to others. And because of jealousy you start becoming phony, because you start pretending. You start pretending things that you don't have, you start pretending things which you CAN'T have, which are not natural to you. You become more and more artificial. Imitating others, competing with others, what else can you do? If somebody has something and you don't have it, and you don't have a natural possibility of having it, the only way is to have some cheap substitute for it.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Suffering

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• [I] could see how nervous everybody was in the beginning and how silent it was when we had trouble with the artificial heart [during the surgery, but later in the operation, when it was working, there were moments] of loud and raucous humor.

  William DeVries

  Heart, Science, Nervous

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

  Tug McGraw

  Funny, Weed, Baseball

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• I am not a big fan of positive thinking. The term suggests that there is something negative that you have to counteract by being positive. That is an artificial duality.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Being Positive, Fans

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• Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.

  Samuel Johnson

  Curiosity, Desire, Demand

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• Art is nothing tangible. We cannot call a painting 'art' as the words 'artifact' and 'artificial' imply. The thing made is a work of art made by art, but not itself art. The art remains in the artist and is the knowledge by which things are made.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Art, Tangible, Painting

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.19, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• A lot of movies about artificial intelligence envision that AIs will be very intelligent but missing some key emotional qualities of humans and therefore turn out to be very dangerous.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Intelligent, Emotional, Keys

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• All countries are basically social arrangements, accommodations to changing circumstances. No matter how permanent and even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary.

  Strobe Talbott

  Country, Matter, Facts

  "America Abroad". content.time.com. June 24, 2001.

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• Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience.

  George Eliot

  Beautiful, Art, Distance

  George Eliot (1901). “Works of George Eliot ...: Daniel Deronda”

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• Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts.

  Joan Rivers

  Valentine, Heart, People

  Twitter post from Feb 14, 2013

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• In every aspect of society, including business and anywhere that creativity can be used, we can be - or we used to be, anyway - the most innovative country, because we weren't restricted by artificial limitations. We are made to be wild, free, and creative, and this clearly was a symbol of that kind of energy in America.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Country, Creativity, America

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake.

  Christa Faust

  Lakes, Kind, Environment

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• I think people try to jam a lot of artificial plot devices into a lot of romantic comedies, and they don't treat it with the respect I believe it deserves.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "Nicholas Stoller Talks 'Five-Year Engagement', Terrible Rom-Coms & 'Muppets 2'". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. April 26, 2012.

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• There is a beauty in discovery. There is mathematics in music, a kinship of science and poetry in the description of nature, and exquisite form in a molecule. Attempts to place different disciplines in different camps are revealed as artificial in the face of the unity of knowledge. All literate men are sustained by the philosopher, the historian, the political analyst, the economist, the scientist, the poet, the artisan and the musician.

  Glenn T. Seaborg

  Men, Discovery, Discipline

  "Biographical Memoirs" edited by Darleane C. Hoffman, (p. 252), 2000.

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• There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable.

  Justin Kaplan

  Memorable, Computer, Said

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• There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Death, Ends

  Kurt Vonnegut (1988). “Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• ... [L]ess than at any time does a simple reproduction of reality tell us anything about reality. A photograph of the Krupp works or GEC yields almost nothing about those institutions. Reality proper has slipped into the functional. The reification of human relationships, the factory, let's say, no longer reveals these relationships. Therefore something has to be constructed, something artificial, something set up.

  Walter Benjamin

  Simple, Reality, Yield

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• I was eating some candy and looked on the wrapper, and it said made from natural and artificial flavors. You could just say flavors.

  Demetri Martin

  Flavor, Eating, Natural

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• ... the age of simulation thus begins with a liquidation of all referentials - worse: by their artificial resurrection in systems of signs, a more ductile material than meaning... It is no longer a question of imitation, nor of reduplication, nor even of parody. It is rather a question of substituting signs of the real for the real itself.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Real, Age, Resurrection

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