Positronic Brain Quotes

#1. All that had been done in the mid-twentieth century on "calculating machines" had been upset by Robertson and his positronic brain-paths. The miles of relays and photocells had given way to the spongy globe of plantinumiridium about the size of a human brain. She

Isaac Asimov

#2. 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

#3. Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic brain".
"I'm not saying you can. Robotics is a deductive science and sociology an inductive one. But mathematics can be made to apply in either case.

Isaac Asimov

#4. Data: My positronic brain has several layers of shielding to protect me from power surges. It would be possible for you to remove my cranial unit and take it with you.
Riker: Let me get this straight
you want me to take off your head?
Data: Yes sir

Star Trek The Next Generation

#5. Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.

Evan Osnos

#6. People who talk incessantly about "change" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

Thomas Sowell

#7. I was always fiercely determined and driven to succeed.

Ricky Ponting

#8. It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.

John Desmond Bernal

#9. I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.

Kat Dennings