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Robots Quotes

Is manned space exploration important? Yes – not least because it simply works much better than sending robots.

– Henry Spencer

But I’m not imaginative. I couldn’t look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that.

– Harry Dean Stanton

There’s something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It’s like we’re playing God. Let’s create something that’s a reflection of us, but it’s inferior.

– Jeff Lemire

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

– John Podhoretz

It’s hard to get movie studios to pay a lot of money for movies that don’t have robots or explosions.

– John Green

If robots are to clean our homes, they’ll have to do it better than a person.

– James Dyson

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.

– John Podhoretz

Robots… I think that is a hot topic.

– Bill Budge

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks’ lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn’t lead to an actual product.

– Colin Angle

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they’re more energetic – they aren’t robots.

– Antonio Tabucchi

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

– Barney Oliver

To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we’d probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.

– Buzz Aldrin

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

– Arundhati Roy

You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.

– Bill Budge

People are fascinated by robots because they’re machines that can mimic life.

– Colin Angle

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves – which is a terrible idea.

– Colin Angle

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.

– Ashton Kutcher

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who… think that they’re going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors… understand that that’s part of the craft.

– Andy Serkis

Robots already perform many functions, from making cars to defusing bombs – or, more menacingly, firing missiles. Children and adults play with toy robots, while vacuum-cleaning robots are sucking up dirt in a growing number of homes and – as evidenced by YouTube videos – entertaining cats.

– Peter Singer

Nobody complains that Bernini’s sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell’s paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We’re trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

– David Hanson

The other one I did was ‘I, Robot.’ I take apart Isaac Asimov’s Robots world.

– Cory Doctorow

I’m Dr. David Hanson, and I build robots with character. And by that, I mean that I develop robots that are characters, but also robots that will eventually come to empathize with you.

– David Hanson

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.

– Claude Shannon

I believe that robots should only have faces if they truly need them.

– Donald Norman

If you don’t need umpires out there, and you can put robots out there, then why do we need ballplayers?

– Doug Harvey

Zombies, vampires, Frankenstein’s monster, robots, Wolfman – all of this stuff was really popular in the ’50s. Robots are the only one of those make-believe monsters that have become real. They are really in our lives in a meaningful way. That’s pretty fascinating to me.

– Daniel H. Wilson

If I could do anything, I’d be an engineer of some sort. I used to build robots.

– Genesis Rodriguez

Let’s not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We’ll be their butlers soon enough.

– Eric Stoltz

At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values.

– Ed Lee

I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.

– David Hanson

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