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Quotes About Robots

I am not afraid of robots. I am afraid of people, people, people. I want them to remain human.
~ Ray Bradbury
A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.'" "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?" "Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities.
~ Douglas Adams
Why do you decry the world we live in? There are good people in it. Isn't muddle a better breeding ground for kindliness and individuality than a world order that's imposed, a world order that may be right today and wrong tomorrow? I would rather have a world of kindly, faulty, human beings, than a world of superior robots who've said goodbye to pity and understanding and sympathy.
~ Agatha Christie
But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.
~ Harry Dean Stanton
Most of the robots being developed for home use are functional in design - Gecko's homecare robot looks rather like the Star Wars robot R2-D2. Honda and Sony are designing robots that look more like the same movie's 'android' C-3PO.
~ Peter Singer
One of the significant aspects of Love, Death + Robots is that it offers up a buffet of the visual styles and technologies available in animation today.
~ Ramin Zahed
Nanotechnology will enable the design of nanobots: robots designed at the molecular level, measured in microns (millionths of a meter), such as "respirocytes" (mechanical red-blood cells).33 Nanobots will have myriad roles within the human body, including reversing human aging (to the extent that this task will not already have been completed through biotechnology, such as genetic engineering).
~ Ray Kurzweil
I think sometimes there's this perception that players are supposed to be robots.
~ C. J. McCollum
Most little children's obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!
~ Riccardo Tisci
Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.
~ Isaac Asimov
Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots.
~ Jacques Barzun
Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.
~ John Podhoretz
If robots are to clean our homes, they'll have to do it better than a person.
~ James Dyson
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
~ Daniel H. Wilson
I have the whole team just around the block! One call and they'll ride in here like cavalry! Riding on... robots! Giant robots! Well, not giant robots, like in Egan, but... but... big enough robots!
~ Dennis Liggio, Burning Monday
We should stop wasting taxpayer funds on ridiculously expensive government missions to nowhere that return little value and blaze no useful trail for others to follow. Of course we should spend much more on science - and yes, use robots to do that science when it makes sense.
~ Rick Tumlinson
When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
~ Joel Hodgson
People think footballers are all like robots - we can control everything on the pitch. But your heart is beating 200 times a minute; it's very, very physical.
~ Didier Drogba
There should be comedians who perform only for robots - I'm saying human comedians that only perform for robots.
~ Fred Armisen
We subverted the entire premise of 'Westworld' in that our sympathies are meant to be with the robots, the hosts.
~ Lisa Joy
South Korea has set a goal that 100 percent of households should have domestic robots by 2020.
~ David N.L. Levy
Robots are great. I am saying that now so that when a future civilization of robots takes us captive, they will search through the 'Guardian' web archive and realise I said, 'Robots are great,' and then they'll choose to save me.
~ Matt Haig
Political freedom is to be cherished indeed. But there is no political freedom that is not indissolubly bound to the inner personal freedom of the individuals who make up that nation: no liberty of a nation of conformists, no free nation made up of robots.
~ Rollo May
So maybe with the research robots that are out there, people will come up with ways to use them to take care of the elderly. And that can help me someday. Because, you know what? I'm heading in that direction.
~ Rodney Brooks