Top 100 Robots The Quotes
#1. I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.
John Green
#2. As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
Reggie Watts
#3. To give in completely to the instinctual urgings born from individual selection would be to dissolve society. At the opposite extreme, to surrender to the urgings from group selection would turn us into angelic robots - the outsized equivalents of ants.
Edward O. Wilson
#4. In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.
Dan Mangan
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Robots are emotionless, so they don't get upset if their buddy is killed, they don't commit crimes of rage and revenge. But ... they see an 80-year-old grandmother in a wheelchair the same way they see a T80 tank; they're both just a series of zeros and ones.
P. W. Singer
#10. No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.
Malcolm X
#11. it was the thought of being injected with tiny machines that was making me queasy. Microscopic alien robots were swimming in my blood. It was creepy.
Craig Alanson
#12. Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.
Jose Padilha
#13. The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world.
Cory Doctorow
#14. When I made 'Terminator 3,' I learned something about directing actors to behave like robots. And one of the key things I learned is that if an actor tries to play a robot, he or she risks playing it mechanically in a way that makes the performance uninteresting.
Jonathan Mostow
#15. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
Isaac Asimov
#16. We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.
Tian Dayton
#17. The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots.
Michael Ovitz
#18. Robots get to see the worst of the human condition on a daily basis. Good thing they don't have feelings.
Martin McConnell
#19. Memories have big value,... look back look what you have lost (For a moment)..., look what you have been making with this something or somebody... (For a moment) and look now without it... That's value, this is what robots don't have but humanity have!
Deyth Banger
#20. Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.
James Altucher
#21. flying robots from an alien power regularly strike down from the skies and kill Pakistani citizens.
Mohsin Hamid
#22. Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness ... Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities ... The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
Terence McKenna
#23. For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.
Lance Morrow
#24. When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.
Rodney Brooks
#25. We aren't robots. What makes us exceptional as humans, is that we have the capacity to feel as many emotions all at once.
Demi Lovato
#26. That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.
Colin Angle
#27. If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.
Arundhati Roy
#28. We're not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.
Joyce Meyer
#29. Excuse me," said the owner of the metal hand in a voice that would have made an insect of a more sentimental disposition collapse in tears.
This was not such an insect, and it couldn't stand robots.
"Yes, sir," it snapped, "can I help you?"
"I doubt it," said Marvin.
Douglas Adams
#30. I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.
Sarah Vowell
#31. In the near term, drones, which can operate on a three-dimensional plane, could add yet another layer of efficiency to Amazon's fulfillment centers (where the FAA has no jurisdiction), augmenting the robots already rolling around the floor transporting goods.
Anonymous
#32. It's not just the drive. They're right out front. Everywhere. Waiting for me. All day and night."
"Who are, dear?"
"Robots selling things. As soon as I set down the ship. Robots and visual-audio ads. They dig right into a man's brain. They follow people around until they die.
Philip K. Dick
#33. Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. It's amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.
Graham McTavish
#34. I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain," she says. "Not books.
Robin Sloan
#35. You just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.
Isaac Asimov
#36. The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
John Podhoretz
#37. Some Google employees have their self-driving vehicles take them to work. These car robots don't look like something from 'The Jetsons'; the driverless features on these cars are a bunch of sensors, wires, and software. This technology 'works.'
Tyler Cowen
#38. If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
Billy Graham
#39. I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.
Georgia Clark
#40. Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
Jacques Barzun
#41. I saw the misadjusted dials and the whirling gauges and the bubbling green fluid and the electricity arcing around, and a story laid out for me, my sorry self alchemically transmuted into power and robots and fortresses and orbital platforms and costumes and alien kings.
Austin Grossman
#42. So robots are good at very simple things like cleaning the floor, like doing a repetitive task. Our robots have a little tiny bit of common sense. Our robots know that if they've got something in their hand and they drop it, it's gone. They shouldn't go and try and put it down.
Rodney Brooks
#43. The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.
Charles Stross
#44. Rendezvous with the robots after a fast
Greg Bear
#45. Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
Bill Gates
#46. 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
#47. The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Erich Fromm
#48. We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil told us to do. For those of us that have been freed by Jesus, we don't have to be robots.
Trip Lee
#49. -The renegade robots are now long dead, the metal ones rusted, the human ones bled.
Irvine Welsh
#50. As we begin to internalize the technological kingdoms we have built,
as we progressively become more superhuman, what will differentiate us from machinery?
Natasha Tsakos
#51. We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing ... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
Daniel H. Wilson
#52. Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures floating in the dense atmospheres of planets such as Jupiter, swarms of intelligent insects, nano-scale robots and more.
Martin Rees
#53. Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you rather meet the doctor than a machine?
Robert Winston
#54. The current phone obsession is a disease," Chance said. "Everyone's gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.
Kathy Reichs
#55. The girl from the front row grabbed AIMii on the arm. "Remember, it's bumpy."
"Why is the color of silence bumpy?" AIMii asked.
"Because it's hard to do," she whispered loudly.
Mandy Broughton
#56. I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the earth, I see -
- architects and earthquakes - empaths and robots - fictions and near misses - lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.
I see us - trying on ways of being - so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.
Laurie Perez
#57. Only when people got back to when the timequake hit did they stop being robots of their pasts. Only when free will kicked in could they stop running obstacle courses of their own construction.
Kurt Vonnegut
#58. The world of the future will be an even more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be waited upon by our robot slaves.
Norbert Wiener
#59. 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
#60. The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?
Katherine Losse
#61. Our robots are signing up for online learning. After decades of attempts to program robots to perform complex tasks like flying helicopters or surgical suturing, the new approach is based on observing and recording the motions of human experts as they perform these feats.
Ken Goldberg
#62. Beauty is and always is. You are absent. Why are you absent? Again your robot mind is the problem. It will not stay still and you cannot make it stay still. It is your master and it separates you from beauty and God.
Barry Long
#63. With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#64. Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me." "No, I don't." "Yes, you do, everybody does. It's part of the shape of the Universe. I only have to talk to somebody and they begin to hate me. Even robots hate me. If you just ignore me I expect I shall probably go away.
Douglas Adams
#65. We are worn-down, hope stamped out. We reach for coffee cups like the robots about to replace us.
Charles Bukowski
#66. Originally, I wanted to call the band 'Guns 'n Robots.' I still believe that if we had just called ourselves 'Guns 'n Robots' we'd still be together.
Slash
#67. The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions.
Martin Rees
#68. Explosions and fighting robots and shit. What's that got to do with the heart?
Lauren Beukes
#69. People can't change. We're pre-programmed robots going through the motions. We're the same at death as we are at birth.
J. Matthew Nespoli
#70. We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.
Narendra Modi
#71. God did not make us robots. In spite of the denial by Luther, Calvin, and many evangelical leaders today, God gave man a will to freely choose to love or to hate Him, to receive Christ as Savior and Lord or to reject Him.
Dave Hunt
#72. I have this dream that the first responders to 911 calls will not be law enforcement personnel but robots. Robots can put eyes and ears on the scene much faster than you can with policemen or women.
Vijay Kumar
#73. Nobody in this world was born to be the same as anyone else. Turning people into robots, especially children, is a crime against nature itself.
Jenna Miscavige Hill
#74. I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who ... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors ... understand that that's part of the craft.
Andy Serkis
#75. If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!
Cath Crowley
#76. What IS it about this town? I never thought I'd long for the good old days of Nazi robots and dragons.
C.T. Phipps
#77. Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher's stone, the squaring of the circle.
Ernst Junger
#78. Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.
Russell Brand
#79. The fact that Man is Nature's perverse instantiation can only lead to the appalling conclusion that Man, too, is some kind of an artificial intelligence
Stephan Attia
#81. I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.
Nolan Bushnell
#82. People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.
Didier Drogba
#84. The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.
Colin Angle
#85. The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.
Mark O'Connell
#86. We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.
David Hanson
#87. Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.
Abbie Hoffman
#88. In 2008, I decided I wanted to begin a new venture, so I started Rethink Robotics. We build factory robots that a person can learn to train in just a few minutes. In May 2011, I stepped off the iRobot board.
Rodney Brooks
#89. They were here from the beginning.
They have reshaped our lives, run us from our homes.
They were always here.
Nadege Richards
#90. But do not take this responsibility lightly, my boy. The Gauntlet casts an ominous shadow.
Casey Caracciolo
#91. So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.
Rodney Brooks
#92. I look forward to the day when the solar system becomes our collective backyard - explored not only with robots, but with the mind, body, and soul of our species.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#93. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future.
David Hanson
#94. I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
Ray Bradbury
#95. the counters and center island were crammed with mason jars and novelty saltshakers and cookie jars in the shapes of cats, blimps, pumpkins, frogs, robots, potbellied demons, and other things.
Tim Pratt
#96. Raucous heavy metal of punk guitars screeching like robots put to the rack ...
Elizabeth George
#97. If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.
Erwin McManus
#98. I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon
#99. We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.
Paul Kingsnorth
#100. The future's come and gone; it's a thing of the past. That once impossibly exotic expression 'the year 2000,' for so long evocative of silver suits and robots in pinnies, now feels antiquated.
Peter Baynham
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