Quotes About Robot

He had repaired his ship – that is, he'd watched with alert interest whilst a service robot had repaired it for him. It

Well, the story so far certainly is strange enough; the robot stood here for three days and nights after its arrival, we think now waiting for a deputation of lizards. Several politicians thought to have lizard-like characteristics were sent to parley with the robot but were fried by the flying arc-welding kits which defend this area. That resulted in the almost complete annihilation of the Cabinet and many Opposition MPs.

The robot camera homed in for a close-up on the more popular of his two heads and he waved again. He was roughly humanoid in appearance except for the extra head and third arm. His tousled fair hair stuck out in random directions, his blue eyes glinted with something completely unidentifiable, and his chins were almost always unshaven.

Where on Betelgeuse is that robot? Asked Ford. Perhaps he's behind one of these doors, said Arthur in his best 'I'll offer a solution but someone else can follow it up type voice.

Because of the various sensory protuberances with which the robot was festooned, it couldn't maneuver inside the towel, and it just twitched back and forth without being able to turn and face its captor.

looked excitingly purposeful, with large video screens ranged over the control and guidance system panels on the concave wall, and long banks of computers set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped

I hate that door, continued Marvin. I'm not getting you down at all, am I?

No government owns it," snapped the robot, "it's been stolen.

Marvin, dedi Trillian, yaln?zca bu can s?k?c? varl?kla konuÅŸurken kulland??? yumuÅŸak ve nazik ses tonuyla, madem bu kadar zamand?r biliyordun, bize neden söylemedin? Marvin ba??n? arkaya, ona doÄŸru çevirdi. Sormad?n?z ki? dedi basitçe.

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the processes of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks. Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does. The easiest way to fool a completely logical robot is to feed it the same stimulus sequence over and over again so it gets locked in a loop.

But what are you supposed to do with a manically depressed robot?" "You think you've got problems," said Marvin

what are you supposed to do if you are a manically depressed robot? No, don't bother to answer that, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.

If you'd call it a robot," muttered Arthur. "It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine.

He pointed down into the crater. 'Is that robot yours?' he said. 'No,' came a thin metallic voice from the crater, 'I'm mine.' 'If you'd call it a robot,' muttered Arthur. 'It's more a sort of electronic sulking machine.' 'Bring it,' said the old man.

Yeah, could you just sort of keep this robot with you and guard this end of the passageway. Okay?" "Guard?" said Arthur. "What from? You just said there's no one here." "Yeah, well, just for safety, okay?" said Zaphod. "Whose? Yours or mine?

Marvin flashed her an electronic look.

But how are you, metalman?" said Ford. "Very depressed.

The three billion people weren't actually there, but they watched his every gesture through the eyes of a small robot tri-D camera which hovered obsequiously in the air nearby.

I like everything," moaned the robot. "Especially when you shout at me like that. Do it again, please.

I would do it today because the thing that appealed to me was not necessarily the mechanics of the robot, but it was his personality and how funny and charming he was.

I got a phone call from Jon Favreau saying, 'I need the voice of a personality-less robot, and I thought of you immediately.' I thought that was the funniest thing I ever heard, so I said, 'Yes.'

The original release of 'Star Wars' was literally the first movie I remember seeing in a theater. Four years old was probably too young - I recall believing, for some time, that Darth Vader was a robot.

I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.

In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.