Robots Quotes

• When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

  Barry Long

  Thinking, Mind, Awareness

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

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.

  Erich Fromm

  Anger, Future, Past

  The Sane Society (1955) ch. 9

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• Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.

  Bill Gates

  Technology, Elderly, Play

  "A Robot in Every Home" by Bill Gates, www.scientificamerican.com. February 1, 2008.

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• The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.

  Isaac Asimov

  Order, Law, Long

  Isaac Asimov (1979). “In memory yet green: the autobiography of Isaac Asimov, 1920-1954”, Doubleday Books

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• I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Want, Imagine, Faster

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• In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

  Nikola Tesla

  Slave Labor, Civilization, Twenties

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Life, War, Machines

  Abbie Hoffman (1971). “The "steal Yourself Rich" Book”

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• Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

  Douglas Adams

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.101, Pan Macmillan

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• ... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

  Isaac Asimov

  Humans, Differentiate

  Isaac Asimov (1950). “I, Robot”, Roc

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• Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

  Marvin Minsky

  Children, Earth, Programming

  "Will Robots Inherit the Earth?". Scientific American, web.media.mit.edu. October 1994.

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• Man is a robot with defects.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Men, Defects

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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 Capek

  Soul, Literature, Holding On

  "R.U.R". Play by Karel Capek, 1920.

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• Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.

  Sally Ride

  Hands, Space, Orbit

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• Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.

  Graham McTavish

  Believe, Communication, Technology

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• Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world.

  Stephen Hawking

  Makeup, Our World, Dna

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• Most robots don't program themselves.

  Neil Strauss

  Program

  Neil Strauss (2011). “The Game”, p.286, Canongate Books

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• I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them

  Donald A. Norman

  Believe, Needs, Faces

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• The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

  Max Frisch

  Men, Feelings, Machines

  Max Frisch (1994). “Homo Faber”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Emotion, Capacity, Exceptional

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• Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

  Bill Budge

  Thinking, Hot, Topics

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• We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technology, Involved

  Marshall McLuhan, Eric McLuhan (2017). “The Lost Tetrads of Marshall McLuhan”, p.99, OR Books

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• If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.

  James Dyson

  Home, Clean, Persons

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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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• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  Fernando Flores

  Worst, Behave

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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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