Quotes by Robots It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents. Sara Zarr robots parent school I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed. Serena Williams robots heart On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love. Seth Green robots chickens done We know it's being referred to as the robot boxing movie [Real Steel], but truth is, 70% of the movie is the relationships. Shawn Anthony Levy robots boxing real Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak Spider Robinson robots way fiction 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 robots would-be 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 robots self thinking 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. Steven Pinker robots work-out goodness 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 robots real goal Leg locomotion was, for decades, thought to be an incredibly difficult problem. There has been very, very painstakingly slow progress there, and robots that essentially lumbered along at one step every 15 seconds and occasionally fell over. Stuart J. Russell robots legs progress Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away. Terence McKenna robots ordinary reality i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT. Thom Yorke robots 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 robots trying moving The brain is a robot-computer perfectly designed to fabricate any reality we program it to construct. Timothy Leary robots brain reality Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in. Timothy Leary routine robots tunes I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one. Tom Felton butlers robots thinking Corporate tweets are like one robot talking to another. Tucker Max tweet robots talking 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 accountants robots numbers So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive. William Joyce robots car real Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better. Trevor Paglen anything better robots space «345678910111213»