Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gunter Grass

A writer must face up to the test of reality, including political reality, and that can't be done if he keeps his distance. A literary style cultivated like a hothouse plant may show a certain artificial purity, but it won't really be pure.

Alan Kay

Artificial intelligence is what we don't know how to do yet

We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.

Tyler Cowen

The iPhone is made on a global scale, and it blends computers, the Internet, communications, and artificial intelligence in one blockbuster, game-changing innovation. It reflects so many of the things that our contemporary world is good at - indeed, great at.

Mark Skousen

Society can take two roads - the road to genuine prosperity, or the road to artificial stimulus. The first results in a permanent higher standard of living for all; the latter creates an inflationary boom that cannot last.

As much as Wall Street and Madison Avenue and Capitol Hill try to pigeonhole women into categories, women are erasing those artificial boundaries.

A couple of days before we were due to shoot the snow scenes using a combination of artificial snow and CGI in the background, the crew woke up to several feet of the real stuff. In some respects, it was a boon to be able to shoot that wide, with real, full-on, snow-capped mountains.

This bill would create an unfair artificial market and a potential environmental problem.

They were gritty. They were chalky, artificial flavor, stale, low chocolate intensity.

John Cornwell

There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.

Armin Zoggeler

I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.

Ryan Murphy

It was sort of modeled after 'The Scream' a little bit ... I also liked the Dresden quality of it, that he was making a comment on artificial beauty and the facade,

Douglas Rushkoff

I think there can be a positive sort of futurism even in a presentist society. But I think it's a kind of futurism that envisions augmenting human ability and intellect rather than creating some artificial machine intelligence that displaces us.

Tom Chatfield

Forget artificial intelligence - in the brave new world of big data, it's artificial idiocy we should be looking out for.

Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Colin Channer

Authors' rooms are an artificial barrier between the storyteller and the community,

Back then, saccharin was the only artificial sweetener available. Some people really wanted it, and industry certainly wanted to continue making Tab. So saccharin was let off the hook.

The second year we got artificial ice and got four locker rooms built,

Terry Pratchett

Something as artificial and human as an hour wouldn't last five minutes here. It would be dried out and shrivelled up in seconds.

President Obama decided to prematurely withdraw from Iraq for no other reason than politics. The artificial deadline for withdrawal was not determined for strategic goals but rather for a political one - his reelection timetable.

Jim Turner

This is not a product that has any kind of relevance to sugar. It is an artificial sweetener created with a powerful chemical.

This is not any different medicine. It?s simply a different tool to deliver that medicine. And you shouldn?t put any artificial requirements on it.

Ken Goldberg

Artificial creatures date back to the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Renaissance automata were designed primarily to entertain, reflecting the value placed on leisure.

Charles Lyell

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

Thomas Bangalter

Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence. Whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years.

Socrates

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

Pankaj Mishra

Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.

This snow fall will help the Olympics, particularly by making the views prettier. It was not necessary because we have a program of artificial snow to ensure there's plenty for the games.

Thomas Jefferson

There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents; for with these it would belong to the first class

Andy Weir

The reason space missions need artificial gravity is clear: humans simply did not evolve to live in zero gravity.

With gas prices as high as they are, we want to do everything we can to take away artificial inflators and this (zone pricing) is one of them,

Salar Kamangar

We are breaking down some of the artificial barriers between e-mail and Web browsing. We observed by talking with our users that there is no reason to think of IM as different from an e-mail message.

There's no artificial cutoff in the number of players we sign to multiyear deals. As a situation presents itself, it stands on its own merit.