Robots Quotes

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Erich Fromm

Men, Future, Past

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
John Podhoretz

History, Movies, Rich

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
John Podhoretz

Great, Human, Why

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.
Abbie Hoffman

Life, War, Respect

How serious can a movie about time-traveling robots be? You want it to be cool and fun.
Christian Bale

Cool, Fun, Serious

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
Antonio Tabucchi

Life, Find, Others

If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
James Dyson

Person, Clean, Homes

It turns out umpires and judges are not robots or traffic cameras, inertly monitoring deviations from a fixed zone of the permissible. They are humans.
Eric Liu

Humans, Judges, Traffic

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.
Andy Serkis

Understand, Generation, Craft

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

Give, Able, Write

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.
Eric Stoltz

Enough, Here, Ourselves

If you had an alien race that looked like insects, then they would build robots to look like themselves, not to look like people.
Kevin J. Anderson

Themselves, Race, Build

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein's monster, robots, Wolfman - all of this stuff was really popular in the '50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That's pretty fascinating to me.
Daniel H. Wilson

Real, Pretty, Become

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
Daniel H. Wilson

Technology, Real, Study

Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
Daniel H. Wilson

Technology, Reality, Made

Right now, I think robots are where it's at. And yes, I'm biased. Robots and space, because with home rocket kits and Lego Mindstorm sets, people can get involved. I was raised on Transformers and GoBots, so I can't imagine what kids who are building real robots are dreaming about.
Daniel H. Wilson

Home, Real, Kids

You write about what you know. It makes everything easier, and also more truthful. In this case, I grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in the Cherokee Nation and I'm a member of the Cherokee Tribe. Oddly enough, I know a lot about robots and Oklahoma, and so that's what comes out in my writing.
Daniel H. Wilson

Writing, Everything, Enough

Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration.
Daniel H. Wilson

Future, Children, May

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
Daniel H. Wilson

Movies, Evil, Whole

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
Daniel H. Wilson

Love, Technology, Hate

Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
Daniel H. Wilson

Time, Human, Culture

Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
Daniel H. Wilson

Try, Themselves, Stand

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

Money, Movies, Hard

As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots. The idea of experimenting with machines to create art was always something I tinkered with.
Reggie Watts

Art, Child, Idea

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.
Donald Norman

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.
Andrew Stanton

Life, Movies, Human

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.
Neil Innes

Crazy, Everything, Roger

My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
Karel Capek

Perfect, Soul, Miss

Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do.
Karel Capek

Life, Live, Nothing

Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek

Work, Women, Men

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