Artificial needs stimulated artificial greeds.

The world is being run by people my age, men my age, with falling-out hair and health worries, and it frightens me. When the…

— Margaret Atwood

What do you have to surrender? A drop has to dissolve into the ocean to become the ocean. And a drop cannot be greater…

— Nirmala Srivastava

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

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

People always make this totally artificial distinction between what is commercial and what is good. They quote that maxim "Nobody ever lost money underestimating…

— Douglas Adams

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial…

— George Eliot

Of all evils of war the greatest is the purely spiritual evil: the hatred, the injustice, the repudiation of truth, the artificial conflict.

— Bertrand Russell

Inflation is not caused by the actions of private citizens, but by the government: by an artificial expansion of the money supply required to…

— Ayn Rand

There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good-nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply…

— Joseph Addison

I think we should be very careful about artificial intelligence. If I had to guess at what our biggest existential threat is, it's probably…

— Elon Musk

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

Conservative feminism is such an artificial term that doesn't mean much to me. For me conservatism means accepting reality. I acknowledge that there are…

— Kristina Schroder

I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.

— Natasha Tsakos

People don't want to believe that technology is broken. Pharmaceuticals, robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology - all these areas where the progress has been a…

— Peter Thiel

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

— Marvin Olasky

One of our big goals in search is to make search that really understands exactly what you want, understands everything in the world. As…

— Larry Page