I Robot Isaac Asimov Quotes

#1. Is everything normal now?"
"Well he hasn't got religious mania, and he isn't running around in a circle
spouting Gilbert and Sullivan, so I suppose he's normal." (45)

Isaac Asimov

#2. And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story)

Isaac Asimov

#3. Allah said, 'A prophet must slaughter before collecting captives. A slaughtered enemy is driven from the land. Muhammad, you craved the desires of this world, its goods and the ransom captives would bring. But Allah desires killing them to manifest the religion.'

Ibn Ishaq

#4. If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?

Isaac Asimov

#5. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

Isaac Asimov

#6. Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always
all you did for me."

-I did nothing for you."

-You loved me and your love made me
human.

Isaac Asimov

#7. The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time.

Isaac Asimov

#8. I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.

Charles Dickens

#9. My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

Najib Razak

#10. Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

Ayn Rand

#11. That Scarface movie is just ruthless! His state of mind was like, "Yo, we're gonna get it - we're gonna get this money, we're gonna get this, get that."

Ace Hood

#12. The robot had no feelings, only positronic surges that mimicked those feelings. (And perhaps human beings had no feelings, only neuronic surges that were interpreted as feelings.)

Isaac Asimov

#13. Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you wish express a culture that combines the best of the two on an equal but parallel basis.

Isaac Asimov

#14. Letting go of our ideas about how life should go is a choice that sets life's magic free.

Melody Beattie

#15. And his idea of solid comfort was to be left in utter solitude for two or three hours.

Isaac Asimov

#16. Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

Isaac Asimov

#17. My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I'm on the plane.

Anthony Bourdain

#18. (The word "robot" is from a Czech word meaning "compulsory labor.")

Isaac Asimov

#19. Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. A robot may do nothing that, to its knowledge, will harm a human being; nor, through inaction, knowingly allow a human being to come to harm.

Isaac Asimov

#21. Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

Fran Drescher

#22. Since emotions are few and reasons are many (said the robot Giscard) the behavior of a crowd can be more easily predicted than the behavior of one person.

Isaac Asimov

#23. First of Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics:
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

Isaac Asimov

#24. 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

#25. A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Ken Follett

#26. You just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

Isaac Asimov

#27. If a robot can be manipulated into doing harm to a man, it means only that we must extend the powers of the positronic brain. One might say we ought to make the human better. That is impossible, so we will make the robot more foolproof.

Isaac Asimov

#28. ...the telemetrists began to use a computer to program the computer that designed the program for the computer that programmed the robot-controlling computer.
There was nothing but confusion.

Isaac Asimov

#29. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]

Isaac Asimov

#30. The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.

Cory Doctorow