Roomba Quotes

#1. Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Jamais Cascio

#2. My Roomba's name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard for you, and it deserves some kind of recognition.

Colin Angle

#3. Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba.

Juan Enriquez

#4. My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

Colin Angle

#5. One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

Rodney Brooks

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.

Daniel Tosh

#9. If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.

Colin Angle

#10. In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

Colin Angle

#11. I know Roomba is a vacuum ... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends!

Shannon Woodward

#12. Moments later, I too came up from a lake of sleep, like a drowning man rising to air, and for several moments I lay in the darkness, bewildered.

Jonathan Aycliffe

#13. Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#14. I breastfed my son for 13 months, and I plan to do at least the same with my daughter. That's an amazing thing for babies, but it's also really good for the mother because it regulates your body again after pregnancy.

Penelope Cruz

#15. Because we are amorphous we hold that in reverence, thus the blade is swung.

Tite Kubo

#16. I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper.

Lotte Reiniger

#17. Ninety percent of writing is about listening.

Natalie Goldberg

#18. Him I call a Mahatma (great soul) whose heart bleeds for the poor, otherwise he is a Duratma (wicked soul). Let us unite our wills in continued prayer for their good.

Swami Vivekananda

#19. Some days you wake up and feel quite certain that something is going to happen and it generally doesn't, and when things are really going to happen it never feels like it a bit.

Denis Mackail

#20. Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

George R R Martin

#21. Being able to write creatively or read creative fiction is the best way to exercise your imagination.

Michael Pryor

#22. A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and intellectual curiosity, and not by a wish to benefit society, nevertheless, mathematics as a whole does benefit society.

Timothy Gowers

#23. Maybe he knew it and maybe he didn't, but for someone like me, words like that are worth all the medals in the world.

R.J. Palacio