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Quotes About Androids

'Blade Runner' is one of my favorite films.
~ J. H. Wyman
In 'Nier Automata', the protagonists are androids, not humans, and that's very common in a Science Fiction story.
~ Yoko Taro
So 'Nier Automata' feels like a story about androids but no, the main theme of 'Automata' is human.
~ Yoko Taro
We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making them look more grotesque. It takes very little to go from super-attractive robot to hideous robot.
~ Colin Angle
THE UNCANNY VALLEY
~ Michio Kaku
The misinformed mob never changes; it just replaces torches and pitchforks with iPhones and Androids.
~ Neal Shusterman
But five men had died, three humans and two androids, beside a river that flowed on Aldebaran XII, just a few short miles from Andrelon, the
~ Clifford D. Simak
He followed it down, in full flight now, the trees beginning to close him in, malign and baleful shapes that reared like enormous androids provoked at the alien insubstantiality of this flesh colliding among them.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!
~ Brent Spiner
The Shrike Temple had used androids extensively, complying with the Church of the Shrike doctrine which proclaimed that androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind and—incidentally—exempt from the Shrike's terrible and inevitable retribution.
~ Dan Simmons
androids do sleep
~ Dan Simmons
androids were free from original sin, therefore spiritually superior to humankind
~ Dan Simmons
I did not know if androids could dream—
~ Dan Simmons
The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism––with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it––could never have reconciled itself to. "I can't stand the way you androids give up," he said savagely.
~ Philip K. Dick
Do androids dream? Rick asked himself. Evidently; that's why they occasionally kill their employers and flee here. A better life, without servitude. Like Luba Luft; singing Don Giovanni and Le Nozze instead of toiling across the face of a barren rock-strewn field. On a fundamentally uninhabitable colony world.
~ Philip K. Dick
Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism - with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it - could never have reconciled itself to.
~ Philip K. Dick
There are people among us who are biologically human but who are androids in the metaphoric sense.
~ Philip K. Dick
Rachael said, "Do you know what the lifespan of a humanoid robot such as myself is? I've been in existence two years. How long do you calculate I have?" After a hesitation he said, "About two more years." "They never could solve that problem. I mean cell replacement. Perpetual or anyhow semi-perpetual renewal. Well, so it goes.
~ Philip K. Dick
The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist. Like the androids, it had no ability to appreciate the existence of another.
~ Philip K. Dick
You're not going to be able to hunt androids any longer," she said calmly. "So don't look sad. Please.
~ Philip K. Dick
There's something very strange and touching about humans. An android would have never done that. (…) It wouldn't have occurred to him; as he said, never in a million years.
~ Philip K. Dick
Most androids I've known have more vitality and desire to live than my wife.
~ Philip K. Dick
sueñan los andorides? , se pregunto Rick. Era evidente: por eso de vez en cuando mataban a sus amos y venían a la Tierra. A vivifr una vida mejor, sin servidumbre
~ Philip K. Dick
The Davids were coming out in groups, clutching their teddy bears, their thin knobby legs pumping as they ran up the steps to the surface.
~ Philip K. Dick