Robots Quotes - Page 5

• I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

  Jeff Gordon

  Humorous, Personality, Sides

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• Who can keep us from recreating our life as we would like it to be-as it could, and should be? No one but ourselves can keep us from being artists, rather than marching forward like mere consumers, corporate robots, sheep. No one but ourselves can keep us from dancing with life instead of goose-stepping. In every moment recognizing our own creative imagination, the living picture we paint on the canvas of our lives. Everything is imagination. And imagination is freedom, but it can also be conditioning, bondage.

  Surya Das

  Artist, Sheep, Dancing

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• This whole notion that the robot has to declare nuclear war is one part of the discussion, but it may not be reality. Reality is, maybe it can empathize to a far greater degree than we can and experience a way wider range of emotions. So, why not have a robot that can do that?

  Neill Blomkamp

  War, Reality, Degrees

  Source: collider.com

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• So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.

  Rodney Brooks

  Simple, Hands, Common Sense

  "Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans and Robots in the Economy". Council on Foreign Relations Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology, www.cfr.org. February 27, 2015.

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• The robot is not going to want to be switched off because you've given it a goal to achieve and being switched off is a way of failing - so it will do its best not to be switched off. That's a story that isn't made clear in most movies but it I think is a real issue.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Real, Thinking, Issues

  "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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• Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and breath, and they spend their entire lives conversing about mankind as if they were robots, and about things as though they have no soul and must be reduced to what can be said about them - all at the whim of their own subjective inspiration.

  Muriel Barbery

  Inspiration, People, Giving

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, September 2008.

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• Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration.

  Timothy Leary

  War, Hippie, Self Confidence

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• According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.

  G. Frank Lawlis

  Passion, Dust, Wind

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• I think there's a part when you sign your soul to the devil and start working in Los Angeles that you also sign away that you could be a human being in anyone's eye. You're like a robot!

  Amber Heard

  Eye, Thinking, Soul

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• So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.

  Philip K. Dick

  Heart, White, Dying

  Philip K. Dick (1995). “The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings”, Vintage

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• 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

  Fate, Childhood, Study

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• I don't ever watch myself. By watching, you try to perfect yourself, become a robot.

  Bernie Mac

  Perfect, Trying, Watches

  "The Mad Man of Comedy", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual?

  Jose Padilha

  Guy, Humanity, Brain

  "Exclusive: José Padilha Shares His Take on RoboCop" by Edward Douglas, www.comingsoon.net. November 7, 2011.

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• Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Japan, People, Culture

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

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• We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Lying, Believe, Hammocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

  Colin Angle

  Ideas, Hollywood, Likes

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• You have weak artificial intelligence, which is a robot or a computer system that follows a list of protocols and it's like yes/no answers that can be as complex as you want, and then you have strong A.I., which is basically like a human, like something that can think up a thought that's never been thought up or paint a painting or write a poem.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• The more I think about it, the more I realize that schools are just factories for turning out robots, that's all. They get you when your small and vulnerable and they take all the human parts away, bit by bit, until you're just a wind-up toy. Turn the key and set it running. And the toy goes to university, gets a job, settles down with someone nice.

  Grant Morrison

  Running, Jobs, Nice

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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

  People, Vacuums, Would Be

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• We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Shapes, Want

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• I don't mind dancing the robot if the chemicals are ok, but beyond that the robot will not pull my strings.

  John Lydon

  Dancing, Mind, Chemicals

  Source: mojo20.com

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• Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.

  Jacques Barzun

  Character, Expression, Use

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• You know what I did this morning? I played the voice of a toy. Some terrible robot toys from Japan that changed from one thing to another. The Japanese have funded a full-length animated cartoon about the doings of these toys, which is all bad outer-space stuff. I play a planet. I menace somebody called Something-or-other. Then I'm destroyed. My plan to destroy Whoever-it-is is thwarted and I tear myself apart on the screen.

  Orson Welles

  Morning, Japan, Play

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• Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.

  Conan O'Brien

  Jobs, President, Hearing

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• According to the fortune-cookie logic most people live by, the best things in life are free. That's crap. I have a gold-plated robot that scratches the exact part of my back where my hands can't reach, and it certainly wasn't free.

  Josh Lieb

  Hands, Things In Life, People

  Josh Lieb (2009). “I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President”, p.28, Penguin

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