Artificial Quotes - Page 3

• You may not realize it, but artificial intelligence is all around us.

  Judy Woodruff

  May, Realizing, Artificial Intelligence

  "How smart is today’s artificial intelligence?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2015.

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• The field of artificial intelligence is pushing new boundaries.

  Judy Woodruff

  Fields, Pushing, Boundaries

  "How smart is today’s artificial intelligence?". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2015.

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• From one perspective, we're in the early stage in artificial intelligence, but exponentials start out slowly, and then they take off.

  Judy Woodruff

  Perspective, Stage, Artificial Intelligence

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• Art is an artificial organization of experience.

  Sara Maitland

  Art, Organization, Art Is

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• I function better in the jungle in Amazonia or Antarctica or Alaska or the Sahara desert. An artificial environment like a studio has never attracted me. I could work in a studio, but I would never really feel at home.

  Werner Herzog

  Home, Alaska, Sahara Desert

  "Interview with Director Werner Herzog. 'I Am Clinically Sane'". Interview with David Gordon Smith, www.spiegel.de. February 12, 2010.

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• Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.

  Carson McCullers

  Lonely, Thinking, Long

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• It is characteristic of genius to be hopeful and aspiring. It is characteristic of genius to break up the artificial arrangements of conventionalism, and to view mankind in true perspective, in their gradations of inherent rather than of adventitious worth. Genius is therefore essentially democratic, and has always been so.

  Harriet Martineau

  Views, Perspective, Hopeful

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.14

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• True grace is natural, not artificial, because, however strenuously you strive to gain it, when it is gained it never gives the impression of effort or straining for effect.

  Frederic Dan Huntington

  Giving, Effort, Grace

  Frederic Dan Huntington (1887). “Good Talking and Good Manners: Fine Arts, with a Paper on the Social Law of Mutual Help and the Labor Problem”

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• You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Today, Becoming, Sincerity

  Eugene O'Neill (2014). “The Hairy Ape”, p.20, The Floating Press

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• Unless we are really trusting Him, where does the praise come in? This peace the Savior gives is not an artificial one. It is so deep that even the devil can't disturb it. You can't hear things in the Spirit while you have any turmoil or fear in you. You can't take a shade of fear into the presence of God.

  Rees Howells

  Trusting Him, Giving, Devil

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• You see these thick curtains shut out the daylight: artificial light suits me a great deal better; it's absolutely steady, and much more exciting.

  Pablo Picasso

  Light, Suits, Curtains

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• Except thou desire to hasten thine end, take this for a general rule, that thou never add any artificial heat to thy body by wine or spice.

  Walter Raleigh

  Wine, Desire, Spices

  Sir Walter Raleigh (1751). “The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh: Kt. Political, Commercial, and Philosophical; Together with His Letters and Poems. The Whole Never Before Collected Together, and Some Never Yet Printed. To which is Prefix'd, a New Account of His Life by Tho. Birch”, p.355

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• A picture is an artificial work, outside nature. It calls for as much cunning as the commission of a crime.

  Edgar Degas

  Work Out, Deception, Crime

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• In short, intelligence, considered in what seems to be its original feature, is the faculty of manufacturing artificial objects, especially tools to make tools, and of indefinitely urging the manufacture.

  Henri Bergson

  Intelligence, Tools, Faculty

  "Creative Evolution" (1907) by Henri Bergson, as quoted in "Bergson, Complexity and Creative Emergence" by David Kreps, 2015.

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• All the joys - animal and human - of a free life are mine. I have escaped everything that is artificial, conventional, customary.

  Paul Gauguin

  Freedom, Animal, Joy

  Paul Gauguin (2012). “Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Here we have some people who call themselves Christians and they forget Jesus Christ was a Jew. Something like anti-Semitism is an artificial way of avoiding responsibility. You blame the problems in your country on someone else, on some group.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Christian, Country, Jesus

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• I love California; everything is so artificial.

  David Hockney

  Love, California

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• Limiting birth by artificial means is an absurdly wrong step. The consequences of this act are irresponsible fatherhood or frustrated motherhood.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Mean, Motherhood, Frustrated

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• Whatever I do seems artificial and false, to me.

  Jasper Johns

  Truth, Seems

  Richard Francis, Jasper Johns (1984). “Jasper Johns”, Abbeville Pr

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• Art in its widest sense is the extension of the personality: a host of artificial limbs.

  Herbert Read

  Art, Personality, Host

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• It is difficult batting in artificial light with a red ball but it's a horrible task for umpires to make a judgment.

  Adam Gilchrist

  Light, Umpires, Judgement

  "Gilchrist almighty". www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2005.

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• The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Real, Party, Issues

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.78, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• If, when stung by slander or ill-nature, we wax proud and swell with anger, it is a proof that our gentleness and humility are unreal, and mere artificial show.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Pride, Proud

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.208, Catholic Way Publishing

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• Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.

  John Henry Holland

  Inspiration, Discipline, Working Together

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• Not all intelligence can be artificial now, so if we make a mistake, the consequences are no longer simply located within an institution or a national culture.

  William Irwin Thompson

  Mistake, Culture, Institutions

  William Irwin Thompson (2015). “Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition”, p.95, Andrews UK Limited

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