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• I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

  Claude Shannon

  Dog, Machines, Humans

  Omni Magazine, 1987.

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• At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

  Ed Lee

  Thinking, The End Of The Day, Ends

  "Mayor Ed Lee: ‘Tech Workers Are Not Robots’". Interview with Willy Staley, www.nytimes.com. November 12, 2013.

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• Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea.

  Jonathan Morris

  Ideas, Should, Humans

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• I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm!

  Invader

  Love You, Arms, Cold

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• A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

  Isaac Asimov

  Law, Long, Doe

  'I, Robot' (1950) in 'Runaround'

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• Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Pirate, Vampire, Trying

  "How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Revisited". The WashingtonPost Online Interview, www.washingtonpost.com. June 23, 2006.

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• Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.

  William J. Mitchell

  Successful, Intelligent, Thinking

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

  Barry Long

  Discovery, Self, Mind

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1996.

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• The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

  Colin Angle

  Home, Numbers, Special

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• 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

  Order, Law, Firsts

  Isaac Asimov (2011). “The Naked Sun”, p.31, Spectra

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• 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

  Real, People, Taught

  "Interview with Bestselling Author John Green: Crash Course in Community Building and Content Creation". Interview with Heike Young, www.exacttarget.com. October 7, 2014.

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• We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

  Noam Chomsky

  Different, Faces, Messages

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 3, 2015.

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• Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Progress, Legs, Steps

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, www.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moving, Moon, Thinking

  "Q&A: Buzz Aldrin on "In the Shadow of the Moon"". Interview with Shawn Adler, www.mtv.com. June 09, 2007.

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• We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Hate, Technology, Our World

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• We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.

  Dan Simmons

  Self, Design, Humanity

  Dan Simmons (2011). “Endymion”, p.487, Spectra

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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

  Character, Fiction, Mystery

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• Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

  Michio Kaku

  Self, Degrees, May

  Michio Kaku (2011). “Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century”, p.37, Anchor

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• They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot.

  Eminem

  Rap, Said, Call Me

  Song: Rap God, Album: The Marshall Mathers LP 2, 2013

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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

  Mind, Problem, Masters

  "Knowing Yourself: The True in the False". Book by Barry Long, 1983.

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• I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot.

  Justin Bieber

  Growing Up, Mistake, Perfect

  "Justin Bieber Admits 'I'm Not Perfect' In New Interview" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. December 09, 2013.

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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

  Evil, Television, Brooding

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• And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

  Neil Innes

  Crazy, Roger

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• The other one I did was "I, Robot." I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

  Cory Doctorow

  World, Isaac

  Interview with Richard Koman, archive.oreilly.com. March 4, 2005.

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• In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

  Cynthia Breazeal

  Thinking, Creating, Western Culture

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