Robots Quotes - Page 9

• Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.

  Tony Kornheiser

  Dog, Wall, Men

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• A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it’s an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog.
  ‘What does electricity taste like?’ I ask.
  ‘Like a planet around a star,’ Bina48 replies.
  Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I’m not sure which

  Jon Ronson

  Dog, Stars, Profound

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• A new study says by 2030 household robots will dominate every phase of our lives. The study says the No. 1 field for robot growth is medicine. That makes sense. Robots already perform well in surgery. That is, until there is a power outage. Then it's just a coat rack leaning over you as you bleed to death.

  Craig Ferguson

  Medicine, Over You, Growth

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• We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Real, Boxing, Steel

  Source: collider.com

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• Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Men, Intuition, Facts

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• "One of the advantages of having laws is the pleasure one may take in breaking them. We here are not children, Mr. Gurgeh." Hamin waved the pipestem round the tables of people. "Rules and laws exist only because we take pleasure in doing what they forbid, but as long as most of the people obey such proscriptions most of the time, they have done their job; blind obedience would imply we are - ha!" - Hamin chuckled and pointed at the drone with the pipe - "no more than robots!"

  Iain Banks

  Jobs, Children, Law

  "The Player of Games (The Culture, Book 2)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 2, p. 279), 1988.

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• All of a sudden I found myself doing things like 'Robot Monster' and 'Cat-Women of the Moon,' and I didn't know what the devil was going on. But if you're going to do areally bad movie, at least you do one that is at the top of the all-time bad-movie list.

  Elmer Bernstein

  Cat, Moon, Devil

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• If I became lost in the multiverse, exploring infinite parallel dimensions, my only criterion for settling down somewhere would be whether or not I could find you: and once I did, I'd stay there even if it was a world ruled by giant spider-priests, or one where killer robots won the Civil War, or even a world where sandwiches were never invented, because you'd make it the best of all possible worlds anyway, and plus we could get rich off inventing sandwiches.

  Tim Pratt

  Love, Romantic, War

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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Work, Home

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

  Linda M. Godwin

  Hands, Training, Use

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• I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.

  John Mahoney

  Dog, Actors, Done

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• The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.

  Erich Fromm

  Future, Past, Men

  "The Sane Society". Book by Erich Fromm, p. 102, 1955.

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• What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ourselves and ultimately produce another robot child.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Children, Self

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• On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in.

  Bill Budge

  Reflection, Interesting, Personality

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• If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Race, People, Looks

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• People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.

  Abigail Breslin

  People, Asking, Wells

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• I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.

  Henry Hopper

  Want, Explosions, Minutes

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• Art shows us that human beings still matter in a world where money talks the loudest, where computers know everything about us, and where robots fabricate our next meal and also our ride there.

  John Maeda

  Art, World, Matter

  "If Design's No Longer the Killer Differentiator, What Is?" by John Maeda, www.wired.com. September 21, 2012.

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• I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.

  Gary Oldman

  Country, Airplane, Differences

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Does anybody find it creepy how many Grant robots have been on the show? Is it just me or he like trying to clone himself and make a little army?

  Kari Byron

  Army, Creepy, Trying

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• I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Writing, Trying, Monsters

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• Some people think that, inevitably, every robot that does any task is a bad thing for the human race, because it could be taking a job away. But that isn't necessarily true. You can also think of the robot as making a person more productive and enabling people to do things that are currently economically infeasible. But a person plus a robot or a fleet of robots could do things that would be really useful.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Jobs, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I've never recognized 'emo' as a genre of music. I always thought it was the most retarded term ever. I know there is this generic commonplace that every band that gets labeled with that term hates it. They feel scandalized by it. But honestly, I just thought that all the bands I played in were punk rock bands. The reason I think it's so stupid is that - what, like the Bad Brains weren't emotional? What - they were robots or something? It just doesn't make any sense to me.

  Guy Picciotto

  Emo, Hate, Stupid

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• Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And it's people of my generation. It's their fault in a lot of ways, people over 40. It's their fault that the only movies are about robots and beautiful vampires. It's wild, all vampires are beautiful.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Beautiful, Real, Nice

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in.

  Timothy Leary

  Tunes, Routine, Action

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out”, p.7, Ronin Publishing

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