Quotes and Sayings About Robots
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Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.
-- Abigail Breslin -
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
-- Al Goldstein -
The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. The Sicilian Defence album was never released and never will be, if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
-- Alan Parsons -
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.
-- Alfred Bester -
I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.
-- Andy Serkis -
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.
-- Arthur Koestler -
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
-- Barry Long -
Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.
-- Barry Long -
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
-- Bill Joy -
In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts.
-- Cesar Romero -
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.
-- Claude Shannon -
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
-- Cory Doctorow -
Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops,
-- Curtis Granderson -
I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.
-- Cynthia Breazeal -
Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
-- Cynthia Breazeal -
Robots touch something deeply human within us. Â For me, robots are all about people.
-- Cynthia Breazeal -
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
-- Daniel H. Wilson -
It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.
-- David Haye -
Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.
-- David Nicholls -
I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.
-- David Rees