Cynthia Breazeal Quotes

#1. Through our evolution, we're so specialized for social interaction. So, if you can really design robots that can interact with people, in this very natural, interpersonal way, I think that would be great. You wouldn't have to have people read manuals, in order to operate them.

Cynthia Breazeal

#2. In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.

Cynthia Breazeal

#3. Once you don't vote your ideals ... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.

Ralph Nader

#4. The total acceptance of ourselves in the present moment without judging things that happen, letting things happen as they happen, is the final act that frees us from the ego: this is the unconditional surrender of the ego to the Higher Self.

Human Angels

#5. My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.

Cynthia Breazeal

#6. We have a lot of suspicion of robots in the West. But if you look cross-culturally, that isn't true. In Japan, in their science fiction, robots are seen as good. They have Astro Boy, this character they've fallen in love with and he's fundamentally good, always there to help people.

Cynthia Breazeal

#7. Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.

Cynthia Breazeal

#8. Making you a pioneer only means one thing. You were around at the time.

Red Buttons

#9. I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.

Cynthia Breazeal

#10. Sometimes you never fully understand why you are attracted to a project until you get deeper into it.

Brie Larson

#11. If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they've been to Mars, you know? They've been all these places, but they're just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots.

Cynthia Breazeal

#12. 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

#13. You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.

Steve Martin

#14. Look pal, I'm a superhero, not a liability.

Steven Poore

#15. Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire , Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive and to assimilate himself, or wield authority as of right.

Jacques Barzun

#16. Shalom Aleichem!!

Avner Gold

#17. Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people.

Cynthia Breazeal

#18. Power of the King

Anonymous

#19. Go for the impossible and you shall find out that it is possible! Impossibility is the fabrication of the coward and weak minds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan