Robots Quotes - Page 9

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around.

Spider Robinson

Fiction, Way, Speak

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Cable is not a robot. The metal in his body is actually organic tissue. Ed and I have talked about this a lot. We liken it to a cancer that changes your body's cellular structure. Last time we saw him, his arm had been severed. It's back with a kind of force that will play a major role in this storyline. This is a battle inside Cable's body that he has waged since the first time he appeared.

Jeph Loeb

Cancer, Play, Battle

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Life becomes a habit. You get up, dress, eat, go tae work, clock in etcetera etcetera automatically, and think about nothing but the pay packet on Friday and the booze-up last Saturday. Life's easy when you're a robot.

Alasdair Gray

Friday, Thinking, Dresses

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The mind is a mechanism. It has no intelligence. The mind is a bio-computer. How can it have any intelligence? It has skill, but it has no intelligence; it has a functional utility, but it has no awareness. It is a robot; it works well but don`t listen to it too much because then you will lose your inner intelligence. Then it is as if you are asking a machine to guide you, lead you. You are asking a machine which has nothing original in it.

Rajneesh

Skills, Intelligence, Mind

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Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops.

Curtis Granderson

Crazy, Japan, Shortstops

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Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

Britney Spears

Baby, Fighting, Superhero

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Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

John Podhoretz

Rich

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People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

Serena Williams

Winning, Thinking, People

"There's more to life than hitting a ball" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.

Florence Welch

Names, Long, Mad

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On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love.

Seth Green

Done, Chickens

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Ladies and Gentlemen this fellow combines the classic stylings of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp....that's right, boys and girls every where, your friend Pimpbot 5000!

Conan O'Brien

Girl, Boys, Pimp

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I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot.

Mark Goddard

Cowboy, Play, Fans

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"There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."

Alfred Bester

Moving, Men, Doubt

"The Stars My Destination". Book by Alfred Bester (Chapter 16), 1957.

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For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by the society. It will give you a Nobel prize and it will give you many honours; it will do everything to make you feel great, if you can fulfil one condition: if you are obedient, obedient like a robot, then all respect is for you. Then the society will make you a great hero, but there will be no grace, no beauty, no freedom, no truth, no being; you have committed a real suicide.

Rajneesh

Suicide, Real, Hero

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Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

Rajneesh

Moving, Mean, Sleep

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Ivan Lendl is a robot, a solitary, mechanical man who lives with his dogs behind towering walls at his estate in Connecticut. A man who so badly wants to have a more human image that he's having surgery to remove the bolts from his neck.

Tony Kornheiser

Dog, Wall, Men

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Now it’s either about technology that doesn’t work or about technology that’s used in bad ways. The anthology of the top twenty-five sci-fi stories in 1970 was, like, ‘Me and my friend the robot went for a walk on the moon,’ and in 2008 it was, like, ‘The galaxy is run by a fundamentalist Islamic confederacy, and there are people who are hunting planets and killing them for fun.’

Peter Thiel

Running, Fun, Islamic

"No Death, No Taxes". Interview with George Packer, www.newyorker.com. November 28, 2011.

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Thank you... motion sensor hand towel machine. You never work, so I just end up looking like I'm waving hello to a wall robot.

Jimmy Fallon

Wall, Hands, Machines

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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.

Michio Kaku

Brain, Century, Chips

"Space elevators and smart machines: Life in the year 2100" by Michio Kaku, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2011.

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I'm a dog person, I've had dogs all my life. But you see, it's not really a dog. It's more like a little robot. It's an actor. It displays no emotion whatsoever. I swear that dog doesn't know any of us even though we've done five seasons of Frasier.

John Mahoney

Dog, Actors, Done

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We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that.

Linda M. Godwin

Hands, Training, Use

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A strange thing happens when you interview a robot. You feel an urge to be profound: to ask profound questions. I suppose it’s an inter-species thing. Although if it is I wonder why I never try and be profound around my dog.
‘What does electricity taste like?’ I ask.
‘Like a planet around a star,’ Bina48 replies.
Which is either extraordinary or meaningless - I’m not sure which

Jon Ronson

Dog, Stars, Profound

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Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

Van Jones

Jobs, Work, Home

"The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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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

Moon, Earth, Radiation

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If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

Kat Dennings

Would Be, Electric, Ifs

"Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2009.

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