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Quotes About Autonomous

Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
~ Vijay Kumar
After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.
~ Peter Diamandis
Latency is very important when you think about autonomous cars and things like that - 5G will really change the game, and I think will be another spike of growth in the wireless industry.
~ Lowell McAdam
With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.
~ Oliver Sacks
I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.
~ Christopher Monckton
The autonomous municipalities established by the Zapatistas represent in many respects only the latest chapter in a long history of revolutionary dual power. In this respect they offer a contemporary example from which certain general lessons can be extracted, much as lessons might be taken from the experiences of the workers councils that sprung up across Europe in the wake of the First World War, or during the Spanish Revolution, or the Shanghai Commune during the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
~ Roy San Filippo
Everything which is in any way beautiful is beautiful in itself, and terminates in itself, not having praise as part of itself.
~ Marcus Aurelius
Everything in any way beautiful has its beauty of itself, inherent and self-sufficient: praise is no part of it.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The mind has a complex life that can seem quite autonomous - dreams, obsessions, unwilled memory are all instances of this.
~ Marilynne Robinson
My name is Zanya Farweather, and I'm a representative of the Autonomous Collective Republic of Freeports." "You're a pirate." "If you're a fascist, sure.
~ Elizabeth Bear
In a world lit by data, street corners are painted with contextual information, automobiles can navigate autonomously, thermostats respond to patterns of activity, and retail outlets change as rapidly (and individually) as search results from Google.
~ John Battelle
Amazon is definitely serious about delivering its goods by an autonomous air force.
~ Steven Levy
Once a bishop is appointed, in terms of governance, we are semi-autonomous. It's not like we are branch managers of a bank or something.
~ Blase J. Cupich
You've got different governments and manufacturers saying, 'Oh, we'll be electric and autonomous by 2030 or whatever.' In my view Formula One is at a crossroads. What is its purpose? We have Formula E, and a lot of manufacturers are morphing into that area. But the emotion, the entertainment, the excitement of those cars just isn't there.
~ Christian Horner
The principle of neuroplasticity means that you have the ability to change how you respond to situations. Past experiences may shape your behaviour, but they need not determine it. you have the power to become more precise, more intentional, more present, more assertive, more autonomous, more at ease exercising authority, more confident setting boundaries, and a more effective advocate for yourself.
~ Sally Helgesen
The simply complete thing, then, is that which is always chosen for itself and never on account of something else.
~ Aristotle,
Endeavour could be contacted only through PLANETCOM, which was an autonomous corporation famous for the strictness and efficiency of its accounting. It took a long time to establish a line of credit with PLANETCOM. Somewhere, someone was working on this, but, at the moment, PLANETCOM's hardhearted computers did not recognize the existence of the Rama Committee.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Melancholy is a kind of boredom refined, the feeling that one does not belong to this world. It's a sensation of irremediable exile, without immediate cause. Melancholy is a feeling deeply autonomous, also independent of the failure of those great personal successes. Nostalgia, on the contrary, still clings to something, even if it is only to the past.
~ Emil Cioran
Instead of working to give robots personhood status, we should concentrate on protecting our human workers. If that means developing a more cooperative approach to ownership of autonomous trucks so millions of drivers are not left out in the literal cold, so be it.
~ Alissa Quart
To be honest, I have never had a 9-5 job where I worked for someone else.
~ Mandy Ingber
Q: What do you call an ant that prefers to be alone? A: Independant.
~ Scott McNeely
He would hang out no signals, he would take notice of none.
~ Mark Twain
the entire notion of the state undermining some primordial family privacy is a myth, because the nuclear family has never existed as an autonomous, private unit except where it was the synthetic creation of outside forces. The strong nuclear family is in large measure a creation of the strong state.
~ Stephanie Coontz
Colonists of, ah, Per Ardua, meet your autonomous colonisation unit!
~ Stephen Baxter