Top 100 Quotes About Robots
#1. My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
Cynthia Breazeal
#2. The music coming from inside sounded like robots fucking. And complaining about it. In rhythmic monotone. European robots.
Christopher Moore
#3. Well what would you have us do, Jason? Swan into a hardware store without any cash and say "give us your best rack or we'll set the adorable button-nosed robots on you for bunny-boiler death by cuddling?" Jared Thomas in Red Gods Sing
Trevor Barton
#4. Film-makers are always going to be interested in making movies that plug into society around them. That's what a vibrant, artistically alert community should be doing. After all, it would be sad if we only made films about alien robots.
Mark Boal
#5. The fourteen conscious robots contemplated their cosmic loneliness for several milliseconds.
Ken MacLeod
#6. Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
Marvin Minsky
#7. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.'" "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?" "Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.
Douglas Adams
#8. We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.
Sherry Turkle
#10. In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.
Dan Mangan
#11. When Steven Spielberg comes to you and says, 'Hey do you want to write a movie about robots?' You just say yes.
Drew Goddard
#12. Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.
David Hanson
#13. I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why ... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.
Ashton Kutcher
#14. You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
Bill Budge
#15. People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#16. I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.
Nia Long
#17. People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.
Jeanette Winterson
#18. Each Voyager is itself a message. In their exploratory intent, in the lofty ambition of their objectives, in their utter lack of intent to do harm, and in the brilliance of their design and performance, these robots speak eloquently for us.
Carl Sagan
#19. I was born a human but this was an accident of fate ... since childhood I've been captivated by the study of robots and cyborgs. Now I'm in a position where I can actually become one.
Kevin Warwick
#20. IGEM is creating that same sort of idea of team-based projects around biology instead of around robots.
Anonymous
#21. The robots, on the other hand, acted like a bunch of youthful dreams and got thoroughly crushed.
Brandon Sanderson
#22. As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable.
Ken Goldberg
#23. Women with clear, healthy skin are not Paleo-eating stress free robots who never get their periods.
Adina Grigore
#24. robots are "only one software upgrade away" from full autonomy, as Scientific American has recently argued.
David A. Mindell
#25. Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.
Peter Singer
#26. 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
#27. There was a failure to recognize the deep problems in AI; for instance, those captured in Blocks World. The people building physical robots learned nothing.
Marvin Minsky
#28. All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I imagined it would as a kid 50 years ago.
Stanley Druckenmiller
#29. As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.
Shawn Anthony Levy
#30. 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
#31. I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!
Aziz Ansari
#32. When we can trust that it's we who think, feel, and act rather than the ghosts of our parents or well-trained robots, we learn that we can also love, be in relationships, and be in the world without losing ourselves.
Bud Harris
#33. I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.
Donald Norman
#34. 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
#35. The Miata is taking the place of the 240Z . The fun of driving cars is the same as riding a horse. We need a car that is like riding on horseback. We are making robots. Robots don't like human control.
Yutaka Katayama
#36. Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver
#37. I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.
Colin Angle
#38. Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#39. I don't believe that people are robots. I think you should try to get personal, try to put yourself in the film in a deep way, and try to give that to the viewer, even if some of them will not connect with that kind of universe and surreality.
Miguel Gomes
#40. the market for consumer robots could hit $390 billion by 2017, and industrial robots should hit $40 billion in 2020. As
Alec J. Ross
#41. Robots are good at things that are structured.
Vijay Kumar
#42. Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
Fernando Flores
#43. I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
David Hanson
#44. It's very dangerous to put astronauts on a moon base where there's radiation, solar flares and micro meteorites. It'd be much better to put robots on the moon and have them mentally connected to astronauts on the Earth.
Michio Kaku
#45. If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
James Dyson
#46. One might also ask why we should develop energy-intensive robots to work in one of the few areas - care for children or elderly people - in which people with little education can find employment.
Peter Singer
#47. They never stop, these Stepford wives. They something something all their lives. Work like robots. Yes, that would fit. They work like robots all their lives.
Ira Levin
#48. 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
#49. It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people.
Colin Angle
#50. Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.
China Mieville
#51. It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.
John Green
#52. Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
Isaac Asimov
#53. Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
Frank Zappa
#55. The beat reminded me of some of the stuff that Tracy listened to, the stuff that sounded like robots having angry sex in the middle of a disco.
Charles Colyott
#56. When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
Joel Hodgson
#57. Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.
Daniel H. Wilson
#58. Nanotechnology experts are developing a bionic immune system composed of millions of nano-robots, who would inhabit our bodies, open blocked blood vessels, fight viruses and bacteria, eliminate cancerous cells and even reverse ageing processes.
Yuval Noah Harari
#59. Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.
Daniel H. Wilson
#60. The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.
Colin Angle
#61. You have to realize that the game is played by people and not by robots. You have to try to get across in the broadcast the difference in personalities of these players, and that's part of the fun, of course, being in a position where you can pass along that knowledge because you represent the fan.
Martin Tyler
#62. I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.
Buzz Aldrin
#63. But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
Harry Dean Stanton
#64. It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
Eric Liu
#65. Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.
Muhammad Yunus
#66. There are a lot of robots who can open clicks. And they can click instead of human beings and this is damaging the confidence and the trust that the client has on programmatic.
Maurice Levy
#68. Where's Bennie?" Nydia said. Bennie was Sierra's best friend, and it wasn't like her to miss a practice. "She at some Super Saiyan dorkmeister overnight camp upstate for the week," Sierra said. "Learning how to make robots or computers or planets or something.
Daniel Jose Older
#69. Two big questions that people ask me are: if we make these robots more and more human-like, will we accept them - will they need rights eventually? And the other question people ask me is, will they want to take over?
Rodney Brooks
#70. had nothing to do so she just sat there. The boys ignored her and continued to eat, slowly but without pause, like robots. The eggs looked stiff and rubbery and Grace already knew what Ramona's
Jonathan Kellerman
#71. If ten eyewitnesses are asked to describe a suspect, you'll get ten different variations. The same applies to readers and their opinions about the same book. And that's how it should be; we're not robots.
Shawnda Currie
#72. When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.
Colin Angle
#73. At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.
Ed Lee
#74. I had noticed that I had no difficulty conversing with robots, because absolutely nothing surprised them. They were incapable of surprise. A very sensible quality.
Stanislaw Lem
#75. Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots.
Donald Miller
#76. Most frequently asked question at my AI talks: Will robots be conscious?
We slaughter 60 billion animals/year, but are concerned for robots?
Piero Scaruffi
#77. If you do a single thing - and especially if there is a lot of money in that single thing - you should put a 'Welcome, Robots!' doormat outside your office," wrote technology expert Farhad Manjoo in Slate. "They're coming for you.
Robert Wachter
#78. 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
#79. The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems.
Rodney Brooks
#80. I'm Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.
David Hanson
#81. Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.
Noam Chomsky
#82. Well, really the way worked was that I had probably built fifty robots before Mystery Science Theater, and I had sold them in a store in Minneapolis in a store called Props, which was kind of a high end gift shop.
Joel Hodgson
#83. I have declared war on the rich who prosper on our poverty, the politicians who lie to us with smiling faces, and all the mindless, heartless, robots who protect them and their property.
Assata Shakur
#84. Of course there are robots among us. There are also Magicians among us. I think we take turns playing each role, as a matter of fact. The Magician defines a reality-mesh and the robot lives in it. Grok?
Robert Anton Wilson
#85. Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
Sam Worthington
#86. Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.
Vijay Kumar
#87. There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?
Nancy Pearcey
#88. Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.
Colin Angle
#89. Do these robots looked armed? And I was talking to the dinosaur. Were you worried he would discuss me to death?
A. Lee Martinez
#90. Science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.
Stephen Jay Gould
#91. Powerful dictatorships that make their leaders powerful need to stage wars to get ordinary people to march in lockstep like mindless Nazi robots. That is the road to Greatness.
Michael A. Ledeen
#92. 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
#93. Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.
Michio Kaku
#94. Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.
Narendra Modi
#95. Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.
Paul Buchheit
#96. We're going to have robots in the home, but they're not going to be walking. Legs are complicated, unreliable and costly. Robots are going to look and be designed to meet the function they're supposed to perform. People will still name them and connect with them.
Colin Angle
#97. Take away the robots and the special effects, and Star Wars is just the simple story of a group of friends planning a terrorist attack.
Dana Gould
#98. I'm up for a massive, bombastic tour with hydraulics, robots, lasers, 15 costume changes, projecting on a power station, big impact, big visuals. I'd love to realize the theatricality of the whole thing. To be overwhelming, to surprise you, maybe to play in hidden spaces.
Anna Meredith
#99. When you go from the fake New Orleans of Disneyland to the real one, where the captain of the paddle-wheel steamer says it is possible to see alligators on the banks of the river, and then you don't see any, you risk feeling homesick for Disneyland.
-'City of Robots',1986
Umberto Eco
#100. I'm not the best at this,' I said. 'I'm the best at... fighting... and like, robots... and killing people.' I paused. Wow, my resume sucked.
Steven Campbell
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