Robots Quotes

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't.

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love.

If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.

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.

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.

No one knows when a robot will approach human intelligence, but I suspect it will be late in the 21st century. Will they be dangerous? Possibly. So I suggest we put a chip in their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts.

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.

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer.

Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot

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.

Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.

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Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Put Smarties tubes on cats legs, make them walk like a robot.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

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.

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.

... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans.

Nobody gets lucky all the time. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody's a robot. Nobody's perfect.

Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.

Schools vast factories for the manufacture of robots.

The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct.

Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

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.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies.

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.

I'm vulnerable, I'm vulnerable. I am not a robot.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made of neurons. It's made of lots of tiny robots. And we can actually explain the structure and operation of that kind of soul, whereas an eternal, immortal, immaterial soul is just a metaphysical rug under which you sweep your embarrassment for not having any explanation.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

Ecstatic over the total annihilation of the Earth, Dr. Strangelove "resurrects" himself, miraculously regaining his ability to walk. His mechanical, robot-like body rises out of his wheelchair, crying exultantly: "Sir! I have a plan. Heh." (He realizes he is standing up.) "Mein Fuehrer, I can walk!"

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Working out what it would take to program goodness into a robot shows not only how much machinery it takes to be good but how slippery the concept of goodness is to start with.

I think I've always been afraid of painting, really. Right from the beginning. All my paintings are about painting without a painter. Like a kind of mechanical form of painting. Like finding some imaginary computer painter, or a robot who paints.

Robots may gradually attain a degree of 'self-awareness' and consciousness of their own.

The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under the care of its parents... But to what extent does the wiring of the neurons, so undeniably encoded in the genes, preordain the directions that social development will follow?

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.

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.

In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other.