Robot Quotes

We didn't use the shuttle robot arm before, so this has been a training flow to get ready for that. (Linda M. Godwin)
That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves. View quote
Alfred Bester
Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot. View quote
Joe Strummer
I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot. View quote
Justin Bieber
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. View quote
Isaac Asimov
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. View quote
Isaac Asimov
A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. View quote
Isaac Asimov
If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love - so what difference would it make? View quote
Isaac Asimov
So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive. View quote
William Joyce
What about passion, dedication, loyalty? Can a robot provide those? No! On the other hand, it's easier to retire a robot when its day is done. View quote
Stanley Bing
Could an android listen to the whining, requests for advancement, and entreaties for guidance and affection that pour from subordinates? Sure it could. Frankly, all that would be easier on the robot than it is on me. (Stanley Bing)
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself. View quote
Bill Joy
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
Looking ahead, future generations may learn their social skills from robots in the first place. The cute yellow Keepon robot from Carnegie Mellon University has shown the ability to facilitate social interactions with autistic children. Morphy at the University of Washington happily teaches gestures to children by demonstration. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
In the future, when Microsoft leaves a security-flaw in their code it won't mean that somebody hacks your computer. It will mean that somebody takes control of your servant robot and it stands in your bedroom doorway sharpening a knife and watching you sleep. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats. View quote
Daniel H. Wilson
I didn't think he was a robot... but I did wonder if his emotions had been designed out of him. Of course, with a guy, how could I tell? Ha ha! View quote
James Patterson
People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.' View quote
Abigail Breslin
I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love. View quote
Anne Fadiman
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off. View quote
Al Goldstein
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)
On the robot kit, I can choose very boring parts or I can choose exciting and interesting parts. That is a reflection of my personality and the kinds of things I am interested in. View quote
Bill Budge
I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind. View quote
Cynthia Breazeal
How do you make RoboCop? How do you slowly bring a guy to be a robot? How do you actually take humanity out of someone and how do you program a brain, so to speak, and how does that affect an individual? View quote
Jose Padilha
I'm not a great science fiction fan myself. I probably feel that way about Westerns. Like I used to play Cowboys and Indians, they can act out Will and the Robot. View quote
Mark Goddard