Robots Quotes - Page 13

• Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.

  Chuck Klosterman

  War, Command, Humans

  Chuck Klosterman (2010). “Robots: An Essay from Chuck Klosterman IV”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Surely, if we take on thinking partners - or, at the least, thinking servants - in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans. It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

  Isaac Asimov

  Grateful, Thinking, Humanity

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• A South Korean inventor has finally created the robot that mankind has been waiting for. Scientists who have been worried about the robot apocalypse can finally set aside their fears thanks to the new robot Drinky, machines are no longer going to enslave us. They're going to puke on our shoes.

  Mike Pesca

  Shoes, Waiting, Machines

  Source: www.npr.org

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• As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

  Bill Gates

  Thinking, Worry, Becoming

  Source: thesource.com

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• 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

  Evil, Choices, Would Be

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.298, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

  Colin Angle

  Technology, Needs, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• One that we can admire aesthetically and participate viscerally in. So the goal here, and we've had some early, small screenings, what seems to be kind of happening is that you come in thinking you're going to see a cool robot boxing movie, you don't expect this emotional underdog, father/son movie. And it's not one that's soft and overly sentimental, but hopefully it's one that's poignant.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  Father, Son, Emotional

  Source: collider.com

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• People being encouraged to make up their own minds and think for themselves is so important. This world talks endlessly about freedom of choice, but we've never been [nothing] more than a nation of robots. Everybody is seduced by corporate culture.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Thinking, People, Choices

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Sometimes artists are control freaks and it's certainly important to have a vision, but within that vision you need to allow freedom and personality- or you light as well hire robots.

  Oh Land

  Artist, Light, Personality

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• What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done.

  Stanley Bing

  Loyalty, Passion, Dedication

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• A hybrid human-robot mission to investigate an asteroid affords a realistic opportunity to demonstrate new technological capabilities for future deep-space travel and to test spacecraft for long-duration spaceflight.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Opportunity, Space, Long

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• There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

  Colin Angle

  Opportunity, Entrepreneur, Decision

  "iRobot CEO: Enough with the gimmick 'bots (Q & A)". Interview with Martin Lamonica, www.cnet.com. November 4, 2011.

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• We regret the insinuation that Mr. Alex Trebek is a robot, and has been since 2004. Mr. Trebek's robotic frame does still contain some organic parts, many harvested from patriotic Canadian schoolchildren, so this technically makes him a 'cyborg,' not a 'robot.'

  Ken Jennings

  Regret, Patriotic, Doe

  "Jennings in 'Jeopardy' with fans after Web post". www.today.com. July 26, 2006.

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• 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

  Running, Technology, Reality

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• You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Uprising, Found, Sections

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• For my part, I think we need more emotion, not less. But I think, too, that we need to educate people in how to feel. Emotionalism is not the same as emotion. We cannot cut out emotion - in the economy of the human body, it is the limbic, not the neural, highway that takes precedence. We are not robots...but we act as though all our problems would be solved if only we had no emotions to cloud our judgement.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Cutting, Thinking, Clouds

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• You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Want, Scope, Made

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• There are things that I invented - the creaky geriatric robot that is always grumpy, for example, or the little wheelie guy, he's not in the Hasbro lore. But kids love that stuff - this little guy as a pet on a chain. They gravitate towards it.

  Michael Bay

  Kids, Guy, Pet

  "Master of Machines". Interview with Lauren A. E. Schuker, www.wsj.com. June 25, 2009.

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• 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

  Cute, Children, Skills

  "I (Robot) Thee Wed". www.slate.com. May 04, 2012.

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• You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Want, Arms, Turns

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• The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

  Jaron Lanier

  New York, Cancer, Upheaval

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• 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

  Mean, Cutting, Doctors

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• Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism ... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots.

  Muhammad Yunus

  World, Kind, Interpretation

  "Muhammad Yunus: 'Business is a beautiful mechanism to solve problems'". Interview with Liz Ford, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2013.

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• 'District 9', 'Elysium' and 'Chappie' were all born out of some visual concept first. 'Chappie' is the imagery, because I think I'm a visual person first, of this ridiculous robot character. It's much more comedy based and in an unusual setting.

  Neill Blomkamp

  Character, Thinking, Elysium

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• Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another.

  Tucker Max

  Talking, Tweet, Corporate

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