Academia Ponderer Prints

'I'm planning to outsource my class load next year. I'm thinking India for paper correction.'

"Counsel for prose is overruled. Poetry, you may continue."

"Academic freedom doesn't mean you're free not to study."

'The organizational structure is pretty simple: We do the work; they take the credit.'

'I like the history professor but I think he's mired in the past.'

"Still, he might be remembered as the 'no cloning' President."

"The UWS association for the advancement of A.I."

'At least I don't have his life.'

"Today we'll examine that age old question of robot accomplishment: programming or processor?"

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"My computer beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick-boxing!"

Master's Degrees of the Universe

'As I see it, it's a toss-up between a Belgian data processing machine and an American electronic computer.'

"What if it's smarter than us?"

'It's not working because it claims it can think and has decided not to.'

"I've never read such utter nonsense! There's a guy here reckons we're all living in some kind of computer simulation!!"

"If you have to ask, you can't afford it."

"Well I think the Real question is..."

Robot Attack in Bath

"I wish I'd failed my 11 Plus too...."

'Tsk...woolly thinking again.'

"Genetic engineering has made us disease resistant."

'Do you ever wonder about this whole 'money' thing?'

'Revolution? I thought you creatures said you wanted Evolution!'

"An equation for your thoughts?"

'The mind-body problem is best expressed in the formulation...OOf!'

'Well, so much for that round-earth theory of yours, smart guy.'

"I want my job back."

A tree falls in a forest and no one is there to hear it.

"They're some kind of robot, perhaps artificially intelligent."

"Shouldn't we hold off an artificial intelligence until we figure out actual intelligence?"

Grading Guidelines.

"These industrial robots don't complain, but they don't show fear, either. I miss the fear."