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Robots... I think that is a hot topic. -- Bill Budge
The other one I did was 'I, Robot.' I take apart Isaac Asimov's Robots world. -- Cory Doctorow
Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly. -- Bill Gates
My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul. -- Karel Capek
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do. -- Karel Capek
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease. -- Karel Capek
Robots are good at things that are structured. -- Vijay Kumar
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies. -- John Podhoretz
And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything. -- Neil Innes
Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own. -- Michio Kaku
Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people. -- Cynthia Breazeal
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence. -- Isaac Asimov
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person. -- James Dyson
Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer. -- James Altucher
Robots have gotten steadily more capable, but humans' expectations that robots should have minds keeps biting robot developers. -- David Hanson
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. -- Harry Dean Stanton
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. -- Antonio Tabucchi
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
Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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
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
[On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back. -- Stephen Hawking
Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. -- David Hanson
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
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
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease." -- Karel Capek
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
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
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
Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs - or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and - as evidenced by YouTube videos - entertaining cats. -- Peter Singer
If you like strange, specific stuff - that's a nerd. Kanye West is a black nerd. He likes strange, specific stuff. If you go up to Kanye West and say, 'Hey, what are your favorite things?' He'll be like, 'Robots and teddy bears.' That's a nerd. -- Donald Glover
Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals. -- Fernando Flores
I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them -- Donald A. Norman
... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. -- Isaac Asimov
When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. -- Barry Long
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. -- Isaac Asimov
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. -- Isaac Asimov
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. -- Erich Fromm
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines. -- Claude Shannon
Whatever he was-that robot in the Garden of Eden, who existed without mind, without values, without labor, without love-he was not man. -- John Galt
Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind. -- Barry Long
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics] -- Isaac Asimov
I wish a robot would get elected President. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad. -- Jack Handey
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
A new study says by 2030 household robots will dominate every phase of our lives. The study says the No. 1 field for robot growth is medicine. That makes sense. Robots already perform well in surgery. That is, until there is a power outage. Then it's just a coat rack leaning over you as you bleed to death. -- Craig Ferguson
I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots. -- Nolan Bushnell
The human condition is not perfect. We are not perfect specimens, any of us. We're not robots. -- Michael Ovitz
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications. -- Vijay Kumar
I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines. -- Claude Shannon
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. -- Diane Ackerman
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control. -- Cynthia Breazeal
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
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. -- Daniel H. Wilson
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
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
The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform. Our blue-collar work is pattern recognition, making sense of what you see. Gardeners will still have jobs because every garden is different. The same goes for construction workers. The losers are white-collar workers, low-level accountants, brokers, and agents. -- Michio Kaku
I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have friends who are animals and a few who I believe to be robots. All of them are people to me. In my mind, it's not about what you look like or what you do; it's about who you are inside. -- Tracy Morgan
Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Most robots don't program themselves. -- Neil Strauss
Eventually, robots will make everything. -- Marvin Minsky
...robots pencil prescriptions for acid gas sunsets -- Allen Ginsberg
Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing. -- Cynthia Breazeal
Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots. -- Robert M. Lindner
We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies. -- Marshall McLuhan
In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts. -- Cesar Romero
We're not all robots. There are emotions that creep in. -- Joe Buck
We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves. -- Ken Goldberg
The benefits of having robots could vastly outweigh the problems. -- Rodney Brooks
People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life. -- Colin Angle
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine. -- Colin Angle
Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children. -- Marvin Minsky
As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. -- Reggie Watts
Everyoneâ??s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots. -- Kathy Reichs
The army is made of the people ; it cannot be made of robots. -- Bashar al-Assad
YES we have a soul but it's made of lots of tiny robots -- Daniel Dennett
Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all. -- Paul Buchheit
I think we should all start worrying about being downloaded and put in robots. -- Jane Espenson
Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed! -- Natalya Vorobyova
One day robots may babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch. -- David Pogue
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea. -- Colin Angle
Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots. -- Donald Miller
In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful. -- Dan Mangan
What will we be doing, when everything that can be done, can be done better by robots? -- Humberto Contreras
How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun. -- Christian Bale
Is manned space exploration important? Yes - not least because it simply works much better than sending robots. -- Henry Spencer
I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical. -- Colin Angle
Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now. -- John Vanderslice
Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough. -- Eric Stoltz
At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values. -- Ed Lee
Kids are really inspired to not just apply senses to robots and machines, but to try them on themselves. -- Neil Harbisson
We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention. -- David Hanson
If you don't need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers? -- Doug Harvey
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. -- Bernard M. Oliver
It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions. -- John Green
Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-genera ted robots will take over our world. -- Stephen Hawking
As humans embrace new forms of social media to keep connected with friends and colleagues, our robots are becoming increasingly sociable. -- Ken Goldberg
Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development. -- Narendra Modi
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. -- Erich Fromm
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
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
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing. -- Daniel H. Wilson
Today's robots are very primitive, capable of understanding only a few simple instructions such as 'go left', 'go right', and 'build car'. -- John Thomas Sladek
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
My most memorable science fiction experience was 'Star Wars' and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots. -- Cynthia Breazeal
Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0. -- Jimmy Fallon
We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it. -- Noam Chomsky
My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots. -- Cynthia Breazeal
Why do humans never do as they're told? Someone should replace you all with robots. No, on second though, they shouldn't, bad idea. -- Jonathan Morris

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