Isaac Asimov Robots Quotes

#1. Short-term pain leads to long-term gain.

Charles F. Glassman

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

Cory Doctorow

#3. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.

Isaac Asimov

#4. You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

Ryan Eggold

#5. Remember that a fine education can be found in places other than the usual.

Gabrielle Zevin

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

Isaac Asimov

#7. He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth.

Louisa May Alcott

#8. Why do you act? You act for an audience. In the theatre, you're in their presence. Film stars don't know what it is to have an audience.

Ian McKellen

#9. Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Isaac Asimov

#10. 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

#11. She's qualified all right. She understands robots like a sister - comes from hating human beings so much, I think.

Isaac Asimov

#12. The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell - unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls

Diana Vreeland

#13. I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

Ted Dekker

#14. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Lawrence Durrell

#15. Changelessness is decay."
"A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse."
"Changelessness is a change for the worse ...

Isaac Asimov

#16. From where I'm sitting,
I AM the centre of the Universe!

Sebastyne Young

#17. 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

#18. Empathy is patiently and sincerely seeing the world through the other person's eyes. It is not learned in school; it is cultivated over a lifetime.

Albert Einstein

#19. BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

Nikki Giovanni

#20. Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

Isaac Asimov

#21. The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness.

Sterling W. Sill

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

Isaac Asimov

#23. I'm there to make a kind of theatrical music that is desperately missing in my life. And if other people don't like it, I'm very unhappy, but I can't do anything about that.

Richard Foreman

#24. My death, Daniel, is not important. No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

Isaac Asimov

#25. The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

Isaac Asimov

#26. Would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul - does

Alasdair MacIntyre

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

Isaac Asimov

#28. I think the eyes flirt most. There are so many ways to use them.

Anna Held