Robots Quotes - Page 12

• I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

  Thom Yorke

  Eye, Climbing, Doors

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• [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

  Jobs, Stupid, Science

  "The Science of Second-Guessing". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. December 12, 2004.

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• Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power
  Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex

  Kool Keith

  Skills, Hip Hop, Chance

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• The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. The Sicilian Defence album was never released and never will be, if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.

  Alan Parsons

  Pyramids, Friendly, Albums

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• But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Thinking, Self, World

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• Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry.

  Bill Maher

  Cutting, California, Light

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• 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

  Support, Lines, Rosie

  "My Roomba's Name Is Roswell". Interview with Celeste Biever, www.slate.com. March 23, 2014.

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• In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.

  Colin Angle

  Stars, Real, War

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• We are not accountants, We are not accountants who do number after number after number of storyboard images, a robot could do it ultimately, but what I'm doing a robot cannot do.

  Werner Herzog

  Numbers, Accountants

  Source: collider.com

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• Everyone’s gone mad, typing to themselves all day long like mindless robots.

  Kathy Reichs

  Long, Mad, Gone

  Kathy Reichs (2010). “Virals”, p.98, Penguin

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• The person who designed a robot that could act and think as well as your four-year-old would deserve a Nobel Prize. But there is no public recognition for bringing up several truly human beings.

  C. Sommerville

  Thinking, Years, Four

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• Improvisation is risky. I like that. Another practical reason for that is that you have to go out and play every day on a tour. I couldn't do it if I thought I was going to do the same songs every day in the same order, like a full-on robot.

  Jamie Lidell

  Song, Play, Order

  Source: www.believermag.com

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

  Jimmy Carr

  Cat, Legs, Walks

  "Bears". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.

  Reggie Watts

  Children, Machines, Gadgets

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I actually oddly have done another robot motion capture. I did Sonny in I, Robot.

  Alan Tudyk

  Done, Capture

  "Alan Tudyk on making Moana's chicken noises and his fear of becoming Rogue One's Jar Jar". Interview with Esther Zuckerman, film.avclub.com. December 7, 2016.

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• 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

  Technology, Voice, Understanding

  "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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• I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.

  Colin Angle

  Thinking, People, Shapes

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.

  Bo Burnham

  Emotional, Challenges, Brain

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• You have a very precisely defined goal and you build a machine that's superhuman in its capabilities for achieving goals. If it turns out that the subsequent behavior of the robot in achieving that goal was not what you want, you have a real problem.

  Stuart J. Russell

  Real, Goal, Machines

  "Intelligent robots don't need to be conscious to turn against us". Interview with Guia Marie Del Prado, uk.businessinsider.com. August 5, 2015.

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• Using virtual world, a scientist in Japan can conduct an experiment using a special facility in California, watching the entire thing via a live stream - and possibly controlling the experimental equipment remotely. We can use that same kind of technology to control a robot on Mars.

  Annalee Newitz

  Technology, California, Japan

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The dozens of people working on this at Digital Domain, they knew that you couldn't get away with almost photo real, because we had real real in the room. You have real real in the cut every four or five shots, so you have this constant yardstick built into the footage by virtue of there being no real robot there. So it became the standard of photo reality that the VFX team had to match.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Real, Team, Cutting

  Source: collider.com

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• 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

  Black, Nerd, Hey

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, People

  "The Epic Miguel Gomes". Interview with Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2015.

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• 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

  Fun, Player, Games

  "Q&A with world-renowned soccer commentator Martin Tyler". Interview with Grant Wahl, www.si.com. June 8, 2010.

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• Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

  Colin Angle

  Names, Ideas, Brain

  "iRobot Cracked Open A Huge Market By Ignoring Everything People Thought About Robots". Interview with Dylan Love, www.businessinsider.com. June 4, 2014.

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