“The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.” MenFeelsReasonFeelingsPureLogicMachinesPerceiveProbabilityRobotsNo FearNo Hope Book:Homo Faber Source: Homo Faber
“We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.” SelfHumanityConsciousnessDesignMachinesRobotsSelf ConsciousnessComputing Book:Endymion Source: Endymion
“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.” TryingHumansLittlesMovingCultureLosesMachinesRateSpeedContactPaceRobotsHumanness Author:Tian Dayton
“Become an internationalist and learn to respect all life. Make war on machines. And in particular the sterile machines of corporate death and the robots that guard them.” LifeWarParticularMachinesActivismCorporateRobots Book:THE Source: THE
“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.” IfsThinkingHumansSometimesWould BeTodayFormHumanityEasierShapesComfortableMachinesGratefulPartnersRelateServantDesperateBe GratefulRobots Author:Isaac Asimov
“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.” IfsWantRealProblemTurnsGoalAchieveBehaviorMachinesWhat You WantDefinedCapabilityRobotsReal ProblemsSuperhumanAchieving Goals Author:Stuart J. Russell
“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.” Has BeensWaitingMankindMachinesScientistSouthShoesThanksWorriedApocalypseRobotsInventorKoreanPuke Author:Mike Pesca
“We need to have nature back in our atmosphere. There might be a turning point of going backward - within a few thousand years we are going back to the Stone Age! There are many scenarios [with] the robot technologies: Humans no longer need to walk; machines can produce products and food and everything. You might not be able to recognize what's false and what is real.” NeedsYearsHumansRealMightAgeAbleWalksTechnologyProduceProductsThousandStonesMachinesAtmosphereThousand YearsRobotsScenariosTurning PointsStone Age Author:Hiroshi Sugimoto
“As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots.” ChildrenMachinesRobotsGadgets Author:Reggie Watts
“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.'” PeopleThinkingMindKindPersonsRealActorsRealizingBornActingTreeMachinesMeetingsHeyDriversRobotsBradReal PersonNascar Author:Kellan Lutz
“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.” FirstsLongMadeStillsNamesHoursMy FriendsOkayMachinesMadRealisingRobotsGigsFlorence Author:Florence Welch
“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?” MayMeanCuttingDoctorsMachinesPatientRobotsInfectionConsultants Author:Robert Winston
“Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable.” PersonsReasonSeemsHateUniverseCoursesNextPoorWonderFiguresLike YouCreaturesMachinesBraveDearCreatorExperimentsReasonableFree WillMeant To BeHate YouRobotsExhaustingDemoralized Author:Kurt Vonnegut
“We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.” StillsScienceKnownEvolutionSurvivalMachinesSelfishPreservesGenesVehicleRobotsGeneticsMoleculesAstonishmentSelfish Gene Author:Richard Dawkins
“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.” IfsMindWellsLosesToo MuchAwarenessSkillsComputerMachinesAskingOriginalsIntelligenceGuidesMechanismRobotsUtilityBios Author:Rajneesh
“Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?” ThinkingCharacterWould BeTodayModernGeniusMachinesLike MeLegendsRobotsCobainLike Me Or Not Author:Kanye West