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“One day robots may even babysit our kids, a job that has always required a human touch.”

“Arnold was on the 'Today' show today, he was a little light on specifics. He said he could solve California's $38 billion budget deficit, without cutting spending or raising taxes because there was a third way. What is it? Let's just say it involves a robot going back in time to convince Gray Davis to go into dentistry.”

“I don't even drink Coke. It tastes like robot sweat.”

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Author:David Rees

“Films used to be about challenging, emotional journeys or moral questions that might make you walk away and re-evaluate how you felt about... whatever. Now we're walking out of the cinema really not thinking about anything, other than the fact that the Hulk had a fight with a robot.”

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Author:Simon Pegg

“My odyssey to become an astronaut kind of started in grad school, and I was working, up at MIT, in space robotics-related work; human and robot working together.”

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Author:Michael J. Massimino

“The real trouble with the doctor image in America is that it has been grayed by the image of the doctor-as-businessman, the doctor-as-bureaucrat, the doctor-as-medical-robot, and the doctor-as-terrified-victim-of-malpractice-suits.”

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Author:Shana Alexander

“I spent so much time as a child thinking what if I was a robot, what if my mind were somewhere else? As a kid you're in the middle of all that.”

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Author:Darcey Steinke

“Automobile is one of the most successful inventions of all time, but in my view, it is thoroughly obsolete already. And so by fundamentally rethinking the automobile, thinking of it as a robot on four wheels, essentially, something that can communicate with other intelligent devices, it can operate in a coordinated way, you can really start to fundamentally rethink urban personal mobility.”

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Author:William J. Mitchell

“It's hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don't have robots or explosions.”

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Author:John Green

“So we and our elaborately evolving computers may meet each other halfway. Someday a human being, named perhaps Fred White, may shoot a robot named Pete Something-or-other, which has come out of a General Electric factory, and to his surprise see it weep and bleed. And the dying robot may shoot back and, to its surprise, see a wisp of gray smoke arise from the electric pump that it supposed was Mr. White's beating heart. It would be rather a great moment of truth for both of them.”

Source: The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings

“Technology is at the forefront of everything these days - communication, work. Its amazing and scary at the same time how robots have evolved, but I find it hard to believe that robots will completely rule the world. Not in my lifetime anyway.”

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Author:Graham McTavish

“Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of artificial life, This approach, initiated by Chris Langton (1989, 1992), tries to develop technological systems (computer programs and autonomous robots) that exhibit lifelike properties, such as reproduction, sexuality, swarming, and co-evolution.”

“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.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“My records are fairly quiet and my dj sets are really loud. And then the live shows are like a robot soul revue. So i understand people's confusion.”

People Soul Shows Records Quiet Confusion Loud Robots Djs

Author:Moby

“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.”

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Author:Jeanette Winterson

“According to a recent study, depression is described as being the disease most destructive to humankind, largely because of the devastation it wreaks on our lives.... Yes, we could set up our minds to ignore our feelings and barricade ourselves from the winds and dust of the brain pattern. And we could become like robots, refusing to consider the passion and joys that could be ours. But then, we also might as well be dead.”

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Author:G. Frank Lawlis

“I feel people think I'm almost like a robot - like an android I just don't really get portrayed as someone who has feelings or who is sympathetic like a self-absorbed ice queen.”

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Author:Megan Fox

“I think we need to move to the moons of Mars and learn how to control robots that are on the surface. It's not the impatient way of getting there, but Mars has been there a long time.”

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Author:Buzz Aldrin

“I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.”

Thinking Actors Generations Particular Crafts Replaced Robots Emerging

Author:Andy Serkis

“My first acting experience was a non-speaking role as a robot. My costume was a cardboard box covered in tinfoil, but I was so shy I refused to go on stage.”

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Author:Jessica Raine

“We don't only want to make robots in universities; we want to create good humans. We can't shape a world only with the help of robots made out of technical know-how. We can't be useful to humankind if there are no sentiments in life.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]”

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Book:The Naked Sun

Source: The Naked Sun

“Google has already tested robot cars in San Francisco. If they can navigate San Francisco, they can probably manage just about anywhere.”

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Author:Norman Foster

“Workers, black and white, need some kind of international affirmative action to protect them from unfair competition with unorganized or slave labor abroad and unfair competition with robots at home.”

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Author:Jesse Jackson

“Mitchell claimed that her materialist view leads to “humbleness.” But it is not humbling; it is dehumanizing. It essentially reduces humans to robots.”

Humans Views Robots Humbling Humbleness

Book:Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

Source: Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes

“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.”

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Author:Jaron Lanier

“There are lots of examples of routine, middle-skilled jobs that involve relatively structured tasks, and those are the jobs that are being eliminated the fastest. Those kinds of jobs are easier for our friends in the artificial intelligence community to design robots to handle them. They could be software robots; they could be physical robots.”

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Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“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.”

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Author:Anne Fadiman

“My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.”

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Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.”

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Author:Cynthia Breazeal

“Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement.”

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Author:Conan O'Brien

“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.”

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Author:Stanley Bing

“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.”

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Author:Stanley Bing

“I don't see a future where we're all taught by robots. The real life, physical experience of being in a classroom and having conversations with knowledgeable people is immeasurably valuable and irreplaceable.”

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Author:John Green

“The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.”

Want Humans Wanted Generations Communist Robots

Book:The trail of the dinosaur: and Reflections on hanging

Source: The trail of the dinosaur: and Reflections on hanging

“Man’s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. … Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells”

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Author:Allen Ginsberg

“Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can't figure out whether you can do one more push-up, or how to motivate you to actually do it.”

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Author:Erik Brynjolfsson

“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.”

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Author:Tian Dayton

“Some people have concerns about what it means to leave our responsibilities to robots. I think to some degree in every family, you've got siblings who disagree over the care for their parents.”

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Author:Jake Schreier

“I don't see a great difference between someone sending a robot or a drone to bomb people and controlling it on a PlayStation from another country. It's thousands of miles away as opposed to someone in an airplane who is thousands of feet away releasing a bomb.”

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Author:Gary Oldman

“Does anybody find it creepy how many Grant robots have been on the show? Is it just me or he like trying to clone himself and make a little army?”

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Author:Kari Byron

“In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.”

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Author:Colin Angle

“Researchers here in New York created a robot that actually passed a self-awareness test. So if you're keeping score, that's robots: 1, Donald Trump, 0.”

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Author:Jimmy Fallon

“At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.”

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Author:Ed Lee

“I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba!”

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Author:Aziz Ansari

“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.”

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Author:Trip Lee

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

Kind Scripts Shooting Robots

Author:Jake Schreier

“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.”

People Ifs Writing Novel Climate Climate Change Useless Narrative Robots Rabbits Gripping

Author:Margaret Atwood

“We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.”

Humans Different Faces Human Beings Forget Messages Contact Robots Face To Face Typing Text Message

Author:Noam Chomsky

“In the war between the humans and the robots, the humans had to win. Call me hopeful.”

Humans War Winning Hopeful Call Me Robots

Author:Dan Mangan

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