Daniel H. Wilson Quotes

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• It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.

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  Eye, Hands, Wipe

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• Memories fade but words hang around forever.

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  Memories, Forever, Memories Fade

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

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  Taught Us, Robots, Culture

  "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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• Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.

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  Technology, Years, World

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• These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.

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  Technology, Able, Today

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• Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.

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  Technology, People, Wells

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• As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.

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  Thinking, Technology, Wind

  "Implants to make us smarter? An interview with amped author Daniel H.Wilson" by Kathy Ceceri, www.wired.com. June 25, 2012.

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• Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.

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  Meaningful, Real, Believe

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• ...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.

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  Humanity, Lessons

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• Each new generation builds on the work of the previous one, gaining new perspective. New verbs are introduced. We Google strange and dangerous places. We tweet mindlessly to the cosmos. We Facebook our own grandmothers. I, for one, don't want to be left behind.

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  Grandmother, Perspective, Google

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• It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.

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  Race, Together, Knees

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.251, Simon and Schuster

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• The goal for many amputees is no longer to reach a 'natural' level of ability but to exceed it, using whatever cutting-edge technology is available. As this new generation sees it, our tools are evolving faster than the human body, so why obey the limits of mere nature?

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  Cutting, Technology, Goal

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• It's dangerous to be people-blind.

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  People, Blind, Dangerous

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse: A Novel”, p.253, Vintage

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• How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.

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  Air, People, Needs

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse”, p.155, Simon and Schuster

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• No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.

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  Letting Go, Dream, Kids

  Daniel H. Wilson (2011). “Robopocalypse: A Novel”, p.193, Vintage

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• Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.

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  Hands, Space, Expectations

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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.

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  Pirate, Vampire, Trying

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

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• Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.

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  Running, Technology, Reality

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• For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.

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  People, Anxiety, Telephones

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed" by Daniel H. Wilson, www.slate.com. May 4, 2012.

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• Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

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  Real, Technology, People

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• The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

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  People, Generations, Gadgets

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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.

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  Evil, Robots, Television

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• Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.

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  Uprising, Robots, Benefits

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• You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

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  Robots, Want, Arms

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• You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

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  Uprising, Robots, Found

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