| 1. | " His account of automaton vision leaves only two options:
either 'life' is the spark of Frankenstein's machine or
it is the Divine spark itself."
| Source: | Saunders, Barbara. "Colour Vision. A Study of Cognitive Science and the Philosophy ofPerception" British Journal of Psychology 89.4 Nov. 1 1998: 697-705
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| 2. | " It uses the mutation
operator to change finite state machines or finite automaton."
| Source: | Chaudhry, Sohail S.,Varano, Michael W.,Xu, Lida. "Systems Research, Genetic Algorithms and Information Systems" Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17.2 Mar. 1 2000: 149
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| 3. | " Perkowitz
charts nearly 100 years of research into machines ranging from purely
mechanical automatons to bionic parts for people."
| Source: | . "Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids" Science News 166.15 Oct. 9 2004: 239-240
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| 4. | "
Regardless of the stated purpose of the book, the bulk of Good
Natured is dominated by the theme that animals are neither automatons
nor the selfish, self-serving brutes that are commonly imagined."
| Source: | PLAVCAN, J. MICHAEL. "Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and OtherAnimals" Human Biology 71.3 June 1 1999: 455
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| 5. | " You cannot banish the free debate of ideas and reduce
MPs to an army of on-message automatons, then wonder why the silly
season now embraces the whole year."
| Source: | SEDDON, MARK. "WESTMINSTER" New Statesman (1996) 129.4500 Aug. 21 2000: 5
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| 6. | "
And to some extent, Garcia finished what May nearly completed in far
more meaningful circumstances earlier this month at Valhalla - he
humanized the game's awesome automaton."
| Source: | Davis, Barker. "Tuckered Tiger" Washington Times Aug. 30 2000: 1
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| 7. | "
While "reality television" delivers at least the dirty
voyeuristic thrill of watching real people make real choices, some of
which are enjoyably foolhardy, The Sims can only offer up a set of
automatons marching to the metronomic clock of the computer."
| Source: | WISHART, ADAM. "Entertainingly tedious" New Statesman (1996) 129.4499 Aug. 14 2000: 35
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| 8. | " Ten days with a self-propelled automaton that runs
into doors and eats only cookies and ice dipped in ketchup."
| Source: | Rosenthal, Ellen. "Say `no' to grandchild; he knows it means `yes'" Washington Times Sept. 5 2000: 7
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| 9. | "
Or its new automaton?"
| Source: | . "BILL GREENWELL" New Statesman (1996) 129.4488 May 29 2000: 12
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| 10. | "
They had gone to seminary because of deep spiritual yearnings, I was
sure, but the public nature of their jobs had turned most of them into
glad-handing, fund-raising automatons, no different in affect from
insurance salesmen."
| Source: | HUDGINS, ANDREW. "Like Hyenas, Like Baudelaire, Like the Angel of the Resurrection" American Scholar 69.3 June 22 2000: 69
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| 11. | " He knows he
is the most marketable athlete on the planet, and the last thing he
wants is for the public to perceive him as an impersonal automaton who
whines about 2-yard misses.
"I..."
| Source: | Davis, Barker. "Hunting the Hawk" Washington Times Aug. 16 2000: 1
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| 12. | " Public financing of campaigns was discussed only
by nose-pierced radicals while getting themselves arrested,
good-government automatons likely to vote for Ralph Nader and the
world-champion self-reinventionist, Arianna Huffington."
| Source: | ALTERMAN, ERIC. "Your Show of Shows" Nation 271.6 Aug. 21 2000: 13
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| 13. | "... that the charge was one that "I don't know how to
evaluate." This was a bit more, and a bit less, than the response
of a null automaton."
| Source: | Hitchens, Christopher. "Beta Male" Nation 271.6 Aug. 21 2000: 11
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| 14. | "
Marinetti's description of the ideal automaton as a
"nonhuman and mechanical being" that would be "naturally
cruel, omniscient, and combative" is not far from a common
nightmare about robots."
| Source: | Shanken, Edward A. "Tele-Agency: Telematics, Telerobotics, and the Art of Meaning" Art Journal 59.2 June 22 2000: 65
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| 15. | " She is Britain's most popular politician, one of the
few who lent new Labour some colour and hinted that there were hearts
beating within the automatons."
| Source: | . "CRISTINA ODONE" New Statesman (1996) 129.4503 Sept. 11 2000: 24
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| 16. | " This normal
observer+ the mixing of spectral creature and phenomenological subject,
becomes a trichromat-phenomenal automaton, existing out of time."
| Source: | SAUNDERS, BARBARA. "REVISITING BASIC COLOR TERMS" Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6.1 Mar. 1 2000: 81
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| 17. | " Once I had started out on a trip, I totally forgot home and family
and work and friends and just became a single-minded automaton, set to do a
job...."
| Source: | DIXLER, ELSA. "George Smiley, Move Over" Nation 271.3 July 17 2000: 28
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| 18. | " Teachers are treated as automatons, and judged on their
ability to apply the training material or model."
| Source: | Desjean-Perrotta, Blanche,Buehler, Deborah. "Project Texas" Childhood Education 76.5 Aug. 6 2000: 292
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| 19. | "... the image that both candidates have
had, at one time or another, fixed upon them of over-rehearsed
automatons who look upon high office as a kind of entitlement."
| Source: | Bowman, James. "The narrative imperative" New Criterion 18.8 Apr. 1 2000: 63
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| 20. | "
Yesterday, the 37-year-old Fijian defied Masters history and
dismantled his reputation as a feel-challenged automaton."
| Source: | Davis, Barker. "It was Vijay Day at the Masters" Washington Times Apr. 10 2000: 1
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| 21. | "... Lightfoot's Indian Trading Post." And on the
porch sits the chief himself - or rather an automaton garbed in fringed
leather jacket and coonskin cap."
| Source: | Britton, Rick. "Bargains, bizarre abound at `Pottery'" Washington Times Mar. 30 2000: 4
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| 22. | "... immediate desires of a River Rouge
worker, one realizes why 97.4 per cent of Ford's 78,000 employees
leaped at the chance to tell him that they don't like being treated
as automatons.
-Rose..."
| Source: | . "1940s" Nation Jan. 10 2000: 23
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| 23. | " In this view the world appeared as a vast
automaton."
| Source: | Murthy, P.N. "Complex Societal Problem Solving: A Possible Set of Methodological Criteria" Systems Research and Behavioral Science 17.1 Jan. 1 2000: 73
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| 24. | " Legend had it that, after
Rabbi Loew's clay automaton had saved the ghetto from ritual murder
reprisals (and become unruly to boot), the sorcerer rabbi had
deactivated him, storing him for safekeeping in the synagogue loft."
| Source: | Stern, Steve. "A Midrash on Kafka's "Metamorphosis"" Tikkun 15.1 Jan. 1 2000: 47
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| 25. | " These theologians are worried, in good
Protestant fashion, about reducing God to a liturgical automaton, and so
they introduce a mediating strategy."
| Source: | Brueggemann, Walter. "The hope of heaven ... on earth" Biblical Theology Bulletin 29.3 Sept. 22 1999: 99-112
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