Quotes about Robots

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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Future - Robots - Slavery
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

With regard to robots, in the early days of robots people said, 'Oh, let's build a robot' and what's the first thought? You make a robot look like a human and do human things. That's so 1950s. We are so past that.
Day - Human - Making - Past - People - Robots - Thoughts
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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.
Anger - Danger - Future - Man - Past - Robots - Slavery - Society
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Isaac Asimov

Writer, Professor

A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]
Giving - Human - Robots
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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots. True enough, robots do not rebel. But given man's nature, robots cannot live and remain sane, they become ''Golems',' they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life.
Boredom - Danger - Enough - Future - Giving - Man - Past - Rebelling - Robots - Slavery - World
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Isaac Asimov

Writer, Professor

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

Robots are important also. If I don my pure-scientist hat, I would say just send robots; I'll stay down here and get the data. But nobody's ever given a parade for a robot. Nobody's ever named a high school after a robot. So when I don my public-educator hat, I have to recognize the elements of exploration that excite people. It's not only the discoveries and the beautiful photos that come down from the heavens; it's the vicarious participation in discovery itself.
Discovery - Education - Exploration - Giving - Heavens - Participating - People - Pure - Robots - School - Science
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Isaac Asimov

Writer, Professor

What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
Remembering - Robots - Wants - Writing
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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. This is a truth which still fills me with astonishment.
Evolution - Genetics - Knowledge - Machine - Robots - Science - Selfishness - Survival - Vehicle
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Isaac Asimov

Writer, Professor

The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Giving - Human - Protecting - Robots
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Rajneesh

Guru

Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.
Consciousness - Facts - Man - Meaning - Movement - Original - Robots - Sin - Sleeping - Surrounding - Unconscious
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Erich Fromm

Actor, Psychologist, Psychologist

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.
Danger - Future - Man - Past - Robots - Slavery
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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.
Fools - Man - Playing - Robots - Taking - Thinking
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Richard Dawkins

Producer, Scientist, Ethologist

What are all of us but self-reproducing robots? We have been put together by our genes and what we do is roam the world looking for a way to sustain ourselves and ultimately produce another robot child.
Children - Genetics - Life - Oneself - Production - Reproducing - Robots - Together - World
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Emile M. Cioran

Philosopher

Man is a robot with defects.
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Paramahansa Yogananda

Scientist, Leader, Guru

Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
Analysis - Art - Breakfast - Dining - Environment - Lasting - Oneself - People - Product - Progression - Realization - Robots - Satisfaction - Sleeping
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Nikola Tesla

Inventor, Engineer, Futurist

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.
Occupation - Robots - Slavery - Taking - Willing
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back.
Conditioning - Excitement - Exploration - Facts - Feelings - Harshness - Human - People - Robots
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Rajneesh

Guru

The world is against individuality. It is against your being just your natural self. It wants you just to be a robot, and because you have agreed to be a robot you are in trouble. You are not a robot.
Individual - Inspiration - Oneself - Robots - Trouble - Wants - World
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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer.
Agreeing - Answers - Geology - Real - Robots - Science - Wants - Wellness
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