quotes 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 -
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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 BesterSource : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”
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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 -
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When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.
-- Barry LongSource : "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.
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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 JoySource : "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us" by Bill Joy, www.wired.com. April 1, 2000.
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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 ShannonSource : Omni Magazine, 1987.
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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 BreazealSource : "Profile: Cynthia Breazeal". "Nova ScienceNow" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. November 21, 2006.
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Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
-- Cynthia Breazeal -
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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. WilsonSource : "Dan Wilson's HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING Acquired by Jack Black and Steve Pink" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 22, 2010.
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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 -
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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.
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It's going to be fun watching this robot start malfunctioning.
-- David Haye -
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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 -
We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.
-- Demi Lovato -
I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them
-- Donald A. Norman -
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Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.
-- Douglas Adams -
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
-- Fernando Flores -
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I have a secret weapon. And it could have something to do with special robot knowledge.
-- Grant Imahara -
I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
-- Henry Hopper -
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... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
-- Isaac Asimov -
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.
-- Isaac Asimov -
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If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?
-- Isaac Asimov -
Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.
-- Isaac Asimov -
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
-- Isaac Asimov -
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
-- James Altucher -
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If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
-- James Dyson -
I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots.
-- Jane Espenson -
The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,†the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.
-- Jaron Lanier -
Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.
-- Jenna Miscavige Hill -
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My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.
-- Jessica RaineSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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If the purpose of literature is to illuminate human nature, the purpose of fantastic literature is to do that from a wider perspective. You can say different things about what it means to be human if you can contrast that to what it means to be a robot, or an alien, or an elf.
-- Jo Walton -
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.
-- Joe Strummer -
I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.
-- John Green -
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After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.
-- John L. Phillips -
Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.
-- John Maeda -
I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.
-- John Mahoney -
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
-- John Podhoretz -
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The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
-- John Podhoretz -
Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.
-- Johnny Weir -
One of the main things we have been looking at is, how can we get a robot to think about situations it's never seen before?
-- Judy WoodruffSource : Source: www.pbs.org
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Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
-- Karel CapekSource : "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.
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Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
-- Karel Capek -
If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.
-- Kat Dennings -
If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
-- Kevin J. Anderson -
I was born a human but this was an accident of fate…since childhood I’ve been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I’m in a position where I can actually become one.
-- Kevin Warwick -
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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
-- Khaled Hosseini -
Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex
-- Kool Keith -
Playing a robot is possibly the most difficult role you can have as an actor, because you have to take all your innate emotional responses and completely suppress them. Even the way you walk is affected.
-- Kristanna Loken -
For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.
-- Lance Morrow -
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We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.
-- Linda M. Godwin -
I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.
-- Marina and the DiamondsSource : Song: I Am Not A Robot, Album: The Family Jewels, 2010
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
-- Marvin MinskySource : "Will Robots Inherit the Earth?". Scientific American, web.media.mit.edu. October 1994.
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
-- Marvin Minsky -
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There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
-- Marvin Minsky -
No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.
-- Michio Kaku -
Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.†But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.
-- Nancy Pearcey -
And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
-- Neil Innes -
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I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
-- Nolan Bushnell -
The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
-- Norbert Wiener -
Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.
-- Paul Buchheit -
Ecstatic over the total annihilation of the Earth, Dr. Strangelove "resurrects" himself, miraculously regaining his ability to walk. His mechanical, robot-like body rises out of his wheelchair, crying exultantly: "Sir! I have a plan. Heh." (He realizes he is standing up.) "Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!"
-- Peter Sellers -
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In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.
-- Robert Anton Wilson -
Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.
-- Robert M. Lindner -
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
-- Sally Ride -
I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
-- Serena Williams -
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On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.
-- Seth Green -
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
-- Spider Robinson -
Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.
-- Stanley Bing -
I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
-- Tom Felton -
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In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.
-- Colin AngleSource : "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.
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The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.
-- Colin AngleSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.
-- Colin Angle -
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.
-- Colin Angle -
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In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'
-- Colin AngleSource : "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.
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That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.
-- Colin AngleSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.
-- Colin AngleSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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Building robot versions of people is very expensive.
-- Colin Angle -