Robots Quotes - Page 15

• We live in a culture that paces itself to the speed of machines. We are trying like good little robots to match our speed with theirs. Humans cannot move at the same rate as machines. When we attempt to, we lose contact with our own humanness.

  Tian Dayton

  Moving, Trying, Culture

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• Loads of children read books about dinosaurs, underwater monsters, dragons, witches, aliens, and robots. Essentially, the people who read SF, fantasy and horror haven't grown out of enjoying the strange and weird.

  China Mieville

  Children, Book, Dragons

  “This much I know” by Tom Templeton, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2004.

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• The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

  Katherine Losse

  Song, Boys, Rocks

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute, we wanted people to take it seriously so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that but they do it anyway.

  Colin Angle

  Cute, Thinking, Names

  "The Wired Interview: Irobot Ceo Colin Angle". Interview with Mic Wright, www.wired.com. October 23, 2010.

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• Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me.

  Stanley Bing

  Advancement, Would Be, Androids

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• When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn't acting. It's following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

  James Dean

  Following Instructions, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Eventually, robots will make everything.

  Marvin Minsky

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• I have nothing against Sean Penn. I don't even mind that he ended up divorcing Madonna. I mean, I still like Shia LaBeouf even though he chose to star in Transformers, which turned out to be a movie about robots from space. That Talk. Which is just as bad as choosing to divorce Madonna, if you ask me

  Meg Cabot

  Stars, Mean, Divorce

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• No. No, first comes boyhood. You get to play with soldiers and spacemen, cowboys and ninjas, pirates and robots. But before you know it, all that comes to an end. And then, Remo Williams, is when the adventure begins.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Adventure, Cowboy, Play

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• 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

  Horse, Fun, Car

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• 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!"

  Peter Sellers

  Drs, Body, Earth

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• When you are shooting with a robot you can't improvise. You can't really... the script is kind of the script.

  Jake Schreier

  Shooting, Scripts, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• I try not to be protected. Because I feel like you can become a little bit of a robot. That's not who I am. And I don't want to be monotone. It's important to be yourself, whatever the cost.

  Serena Williams

  Being Yourself, Who I Am, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Timothy Leary

  Reality, Brain, Psychedelic

  Timothy Leary (2009). “Change Your Brain”, p.58, Ronin Publishing

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• I welcome the opportunity (even if painful) that my minute to minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Opportunity, Emotional, Addiction

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• In L.A., I was meeting people who were all actors. My mind started to open up to what acting was. I didn't realize that Brad Pitt was a real person. I didn't think he was a robot or a machine, but I thought you were just born into acting - that it's a family tree, kind of like NASCAR. No one can just say, 'Hey, I'm going to be a NASCAR driver.'

  Kellan Lutz

  Real, Thinking, People

  Interview With Mark Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 19, 2010.

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• 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.

  Marvin Minsky

  Block, People, World

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• We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.

  Marvin Minsky

  Vision, Action, Planning

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• It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.

  Margaret Atwood

  Writing, People, Climate

  Interview with Ed Finn, www.slate.com. February 6, 2015.

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

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Vulnerable

  Song: I Am Not A Robot, Album: The Family Jewels, 2010

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• We were all born robots. We were all born slaves to our sin. We did what the flesh and what the devil told us to do. For those of us that have been freed by Jesus, we don't have to be robots.

  Trip Lee

  Jesus, Devil, Flesh

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Grateful, Smell

  "Lust for words, and ice-cream too" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2007.

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• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Technology, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

  Bill Budge

  Writing, Hands, Track

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

  Daniel H. Wilson

  Taught Us, Culture, Growing

  "Dan Wilson's HOW TO SURVIVE A ROBOT UPRISING Acquired by Jack Black and Steve Pink" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. October 22, 2010.

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