Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot"
Robots quotes
Robots
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Elizabeth Gilbert
Author, Memoirist
"Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots."
Robert Anton Wilson
Author, Philosopher
"Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot."
Serena Williams
Tennis Player
"I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed."
Billy Graham
Evangelist, Author
"Robots do not love. God created us with the capacity to love. Love is based upon one's right to choose to love. We cannot force others to love us. We can make them serve us or obey us. But true love is founded upon one's freedom to choose to respond."
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"We are all robots when uncritically involved with our technologies."
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"Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody."
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"In the future, all robots will act like Don Knotts."
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"In summary, Intelligence Intensification is desirable, because there is not a single problem confronting humanity that is not either caused or considerably worsened by the prevailing stupidity (insensitivity) of the species: badly wired robots bumping into and maiming and killing each other."
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"I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes."
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"Man is a robot with defects."
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"They said I rap like a robot, so call me rapbot."
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"If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots."
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"Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away."
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"Im doing pretty good as far as geniuses go ... Im like a machine. Im a robot. You cannot offend a robot ... Im going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain ... The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You dont think that I would be one of the characters of todays modern Bible?"
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"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."
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"At the end of the day, tech workers are not robots: they feel, they think, they have values."
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"Most great art is freedom within form. Without form, we are amateurs, without freedom, we are robots."
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"Fidel Castro declared that a robot would do a better job as president than Barack Obama. After hearing this, Mitt Romney thanked Castro for his endorsement."
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"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."
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"As a child I was very into gadgets and machines and robots."
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"But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply to any problem. The stereotype of a fully rational and objective scientific method, with individual scientists as logical (and interchangeable) robots, is self-serving mythology."
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"On 'Robot Chicken' we parodied a lot of things but it was done out of love."
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"We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it."
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"Take a picture of this so Isaac can see it when they invent robot eyes."
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