Famous Quotes & Sayings

Colin Channer

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

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.

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.

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.

James Altucher

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Tony Judt

I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed.

If artificial barriers are necessary to keep employees dedicated to company goals, then that's an indicator of weak management.

One of the differences between real documentaries and reality television, besides the artificial construct of reality television, is that the people who are recruited to be on those shows, and the people who are interested in going on those shows, basically want to be famous. Or maybe they can win a million dollars or something.

I was gonna die. I was on an artificial heart. I'll just be eternally grateful for what Keith has done for me.

I wouldn't view this as any indication the company is putting itself up for sale. I think it's an indication of better corporate governance. What they are trying to show everyone is that there's not going to be any artificial hurdles to them being acquired.

He studied and learned about the procedure and about the company that made the artificial hip. So he bought a lot of stock in the company and made a bunch of money on it.

Saeb Erekat

Mr. Ross is breathing artificial life into the peace process.

Seth Shostak

Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where in fact the majority of the intelligence out there is not biological. That would be my argument.

Looking at past data and previous mergers, typically you do find an increase in customer satisfaction. That's because what's happened is we're seeing artificial results for satisfaction based on an event, as opposed to real life experiences due to normal operations.

Charles Kennedy

Look, I have already said I am not going to put any artificial limits on our ambitions this time around

Marshall had an excellent surface. The artificial surfaces now are as good or better than grass.

Limestone is porous, it transmits moisture. When you create an artificial bed like I'm describing, you sort of duplicate that kind of environment.

Igor Ivanov

without any artificial delays, without any artificial obstacles.

We don't see student housing as something that needs artificial stimulation from us.

Whether artificial man will be better or worse than the natural sort I do not venture to predict.

I don't think anything would have or should have an impact on this state. Every time, they implement some artificial restrictions on the market, they have unintended results.

I do not believe in subsidizing old-fashioned industries and an artificial prolongation of non-competitive sectors,

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

We always want to live in an environment where there's no artificial block to good work.