#artificial

The attribution of intelligence to machines, crowds of fragments, or other nerd deities obscures more than it illuminates. When people are told that a computer is intelligent, they become prone to changing themselves in order to make the computer appear to work better, instead of demanding that the computer be changed to become more useful. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#artificial-intelligence #computers #personhood #technology #change

All men are created Equal. Some just have more Splenda. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#equality #funny #humanity #humor #inequality

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God. ↗

— Thomas Browne

#all things #art #artificial #god #things

To me, length is an artificial and arbitrary factor in a film. ↗

— Frank Darabont

#artificial #factor #film #length #me

It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners. ↗

— James Wolcott

#bathe #both #bridal #comedies #comedy

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. ↗

— Andre Gide

#annoys #artificial #bores #constructs #eludes

Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#being #confronted #desires #emancipation #external

It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#because #body #education #formation #habits

The thing about doing anything artificial to your hair is that you have to look after it. So you're always vulnerable to the weather and time. ↗

— Francesca Annis

#after #always #anything #artificial #doing