#artificial

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. ↗

— Alan Kay

#artificial #artificial intelligence #complex #every #every time

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us. ↗

— Tom Ford

#comes #i #i do #i think #monogamy

They convinced our mothers that if a food item came in a bottle -- or a can or a box or a cellophane bag -- then it was somehow better for you than when it came to you free of charge via Mother Nature....An entire generation of us were introduced in our very first week to the concept that phony was better than real, that something manufactured was better than something that was right there in the room. (Later in life, this explained the popularity of the fast food breakfast burrito, neocons, Kardashians, and why we think reading this book on a tiny screen with only three minutes of battery life left is enjoyable. ↗

— Michael Moore

#breastfeeding #fast-food #neocons #food

I named all my children after flowers. There's Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial. ↗

— Bert Williams

#artificial #children #flowers #i #named

Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return. ↗

— Marvin Olasky

#against #artificial #baseball #behind #enforcing

To what purpose is it to be artificially happy on the surface? ↗

— Anne Parillaud

#happy #purpose #surface

The quality of his being one with the people, of having no artificial or natural barriers between him and them, made it possible for him to be a leader without ever being or thinking of being a dictator. ↗

— Frances Perkins

#barriers #being #between #dictator #ever

Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#artist #comment #condition #creates #force

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#could #criticism #dislike #france #free

Maybe the only significant difference between a really smart simulation and a human being was the noise they made when you punched them. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#intelligence