Robots Quotes - Page 13

• A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can finally set aside their fears thanks to the new robot Drinky, machines are no longer going to enslave us. They're going to puke on our shoes.

  Mike Pesca

  Shoes, Waiting, Machines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

  Oh Land

  Artist, Light, Personality

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• We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

  Ken Jennings

  Regret, Patriotic, Doe

  "Jennings in 'Jeopardy' with fans after Web post". www.today.com. July 26, 2006.

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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 Angle

  Support, Lines, Rosie

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Play, Order

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

  Colin Angle

  Technology, Voice, Understanding

  "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

  Jimmy Carr

  Cat, Legs, Walks

  "Bears". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

  C. Sommerville

  Thinking, Years, Four

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• Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

  Kathy Reichs

  Long, Mad, Gone

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.98, Penguin

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• In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.

  Colin Angle

  Stars, Real, War

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• I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

  Colin Angle

  Thinking, People, Shapes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

  Colin Angle

  Technology, Needs, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.

  Billy Graham

  Evil, Choices, Would Be

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

  Muhammad Yunus

  World, Kind, Interpretation

  "Muhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'". Interview with Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• I didn't think he was a robot...but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha!

  James Patterson

  Thinking, Guy, Emotion

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• For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Clouds

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

  James Dean

  Following Instructions, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I still like Shia LaBeouf even though he chose to star in Transformers, which turned out to be a movie about robots from space. That Talk. Which is just as bad as choosing to divorce Madonna, if you ask me

  Meg Cabot

  Stars, Mean, Divorce

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• No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Adventure, Cowboy, Play

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• I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and wear what everybody else is wearing. Sometimes I think we're all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don't like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don't want to be a robot!

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Shadow

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• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.

  Michael A. Ledeen

  Powerful, War, Greatness

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• When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wind, Play, Tennis

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• If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.

  Billy Graham

  Mean, Our World, Essence

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Might

  "Profile: Cynthia Breazeal". "Nova ScienceNow" with Neil deGrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. November 21, 2006.

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