Quotes About Automaton

To have the vice of scruple - to be an automaton of remorse.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

What could destroy us more quickly than working, thinking, and feeling without any inner necessity, without any deeply personal choice, without pleasure - as an automaton of duty? This is the very recipe for decadence, even for idiocy.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

You really an automaton – a calculating machine. There is something positively inhuman in you at times.

A system of logical instructions that an automaton can carry out and which causes the automaton to perform some organized task is called a code.

After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if he is worked by clockwork: nothing spontaneous; mechanical smiles, spectral gesticulations. Yourself a specter, how would you see others as alive?

If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

Revolutionary' discipline depends on political consciousness – on an understanding of why orders must be obeyed; it takes time to diffuse this, but it also takes time to drill a man into an automaton on the barrack-square.

But I'm not an automaton. I'm human and I have a life, and just for a short while I had responsibilities that meant I couldn't be the employee you—or I—would have liked.

Y ahora la vida es lo único que codiciamos: que este autómata de carne, con sus miembros y articulaciones en buen estado, pueda ejecutar sus funciones, que la morada de su alma sea capaz de contener a su habitante. Nuestras mentes, que antes viajaban lejos a través de incontables esferas ? combinaciones infinitas, se recluían ahora tras los muros de la carne y aspiraban solo a conservar su bienestar. Sin duda era bastante lo que nos habíamos degradado.

los experimentos de laboratorio tienen el poder de transformar a una persona en «un autómata estúpido» que puede manifestar una «entusiasta disposición a ayudar al investigador de todas las maneras posibles, diciéndole precisamente lo que más quiere saber».

Desde los cincuenta, ya no representó ninguna edad. Y, siempre silenciosa, erguido el talle y mesurados los ademanes, parecía una mujer de madera que funcionara automáticamente.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

THE LESS OF a man I became, and the more of an automaton, so the dreams and half-memories ceased to plague me. It was as if they had deliberately driven me into this mindless rôle; so long as I continued to be a creature without remorse or conscience they would reward me with their absence. If I again showed signs of ordinary Humanity, then they would punish me with their presence.

Men are lonely and out of communication with one another because all their inventions speak only of death. Death is the automaton which rules the world of activity. Death is silent, because it has no mouth. Death has never expressed anything. Death is wonderful too--after life.

I think that unless you can take judgments of right and wrong like an automaton, you must have emotions because that is our only way of moral guidance.

Thats all we should be, a squishy golem, an extremely articulate automaton, Without one thing- Spirit

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

A memory is a luminous miniature, like the hologram of the princess, in that movie, that the faithful robot carried in his circuits from galaxy to galaxy. The sadness inherent in any memory comes from the fact that its object is forgetting. All movement, the great horizon, the journey, is a spasm of forgetting, which bends in the bubble of memory. Memory is always portable, it is always in the hands of a wandering automaton.

Cellular automatons provide an elegant solution when each cell contains a complete calculating system, as symbolically represented in Fig. 73. These single calculating systems contain both information-processing and information-storing elements.

Adiós muñeca, ha sido muy hermoso, pero eras un autómata sin alma.

Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested. "It seems possible..." For once Charlotte could only find herself in agreement.

and led me to finally recognise that I was but an automaton devoid of free will in thought and action and merely responsible to the forces of the environment.