Robots Quotes

“When robots take certain jobs, it's a gift to humanity.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth

“Joscha: For me a very interesting discovery in the last year was the word spirit—because I realized that what “spirit” actually means: It’s an operating system for an autonomous robot. And when the word was invented, people needed this word, but they didn’t have robots that built themselves yet; the only autonomous robots that were known were people, animals, plants, ecosystems, cities and so on. And they all had spirits. And it makes sense to say that a plant is an operating system, right? If you pinch the plant in one area, then it’s going to have repercussions throughout the plant. Everything in the plant is in some sense connected into some global aesthetics, like in other organisms. An organism is not a collection of cells; it’s a function that tells cells how to behave. And this function is not implemented as some kind of supernatural thing, like some morphogenetic field, it is an emergent result of the interactions of each cell with each other cell.

Lex: Oh my god, so what you’re saying is the organism is a function that tells the cells what to do? And the function emerges from the interaction of the cells.

Joscha: Yes. So it’s basically a description of what the plant is doing in terms of macro-states. And the macro-states, the physical implementation are too many of them to describe them, so the software that we use to describe what a plant is doing—this spirit of the plant—is the software, the operating system of the plant, right? This is a way in which we, the observers, make sense of the plant. The same is true for people, so people have spirits, which is their operating system in a way, right, and there’s aspects of that operating system that relate to how your body functions, and others how you socially interact, how you interact with yourself and so on. And we make models of that spirit and we think it’s a loaded term because it’s from a pre-scientific age, but it took the scientific age a long time to rediscover a term that is pretty much the same thing and I suspect that the differences that we still see between the old word and the new word are translation errors that over the centuries.”
― Joscha Bach

“If the humans see me actually doing my job, it helps keep suspicions from forming about faulty governor modules.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“And then, I swear to God, it waves at me! One of its little arms waves at me!

I wave back.

It waves again.

Okay, this could go on all day. I head back toward the airlock.

Your move, guys.

...

Their move is taking a long time and I'm getting bored.

Wow, I'm sitting here in a spaceship in the Tau Ceti system waiting for the intelligent aliens I just met to continue our conversation... and I'm bored. Humans being have a remarkable ability to accept the abnormal and make it normal.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary

“I wanted man to become master! So he wouldn’t have to live from hand to mouth! I didn’t want to see another soul grow numb slaving over someone else’s machines! I wanted there to be nothing, nothing, nothing left of that damned mess of a social hierarchy! I abhorred degradation and suffering! I was fighting against poverty! I wanted a new generation of mankind! I wanted ... I thought ...”
― Karel Čapek, R. U. R.

“On the entertainment feed, this is what they call an “oh shit” moment.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“Look around your house. There is probably enough material there to allow you to make a human being. If you, the new professor Frankenstein, put all the bits together in exactly the right way, and then you shot some electricity into the body, would you be able to stand back, raise your hands to the heavens and cry, 'It’s alive!'. You would need to be a fucking lunatic to believe that such a thing is possible. But, deep down, every materialist believes it. After all, they think they will create conscious robots from scrapyard metal. Emergence – how stupid things become smarter together. Not! Emergence – how Not-X comes from X just by randomly shuffling X around long enough.”
― David Sinclair, One Right Answer, Infinite Wrong Answers: Why Humanity Is Addicted to Being Wrong

“I called it a robot," Eddie answered, "but that's not what it really was. Susannah's right--the only thing robots bleed when you shoot them is Quaker State 10-40. I think it was what people of my world call a cyborg, Roland--a creature that's part machine and part flesh and blood. There was a movie I saw...we told you about movies, didn't we?"
Smiling a little, Roland nodded.
"Well, this movie was called Robocop, and the guy in it wasn't a lot different from the bear Susannah killed. How did you know where she should shoot it?”
― Stephen King, The Waste Lands

“Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines.”
― Philip K. Dick

“I’m tired
I’m so tired
Like an old whore
Like robots after the machines war”
― Sobhan Ganji, Plastic Panther

“Creativity creates creativity”
― Sukant Ratnakar, Quantraz

“If all the extraterrestrials in Logicalard Fallaciod were replaced with robots, there really wouldn’t be any forms of theorization and faulty reasoning. The robots, as they wouldn’t even have any intentions and sentiments, would only be capable of scanning, computing, moving, and recharging. If the robots replaced the extraterrestrials, there wouldn’t be any inclinations or predispositions to stereotyping and using logical fallacies in theories; they wouldn’t have enough emotions and ambitions to do it!”
― Lucy Carter, Logicalard Fallacoid

“It symbolizes neither one nor the other, but a mixture of the two without priority”
― Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel

“I had talked myself into believing that I hadn’t actually lost it as much as I thought I had when Mensah had offered to let me hang out in the hub with the humans like I was an actual person or something.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“I had my helmet plate opaqued, so I could wince a lot without any of them knowing.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“The silence was worse this time. On the feed I saw Pin-Lee move uncertainly, glance at Overse and Arada. Ratthi rubbed his face. Then Mensah said quietly, “SecUnit, do you have a name?”
I wasn’t sure what she wanted. “No.”
“It calls itself ‘Murderbot,’” Gurathin said.
I opened my eyes and looked at him; I couldn’t stop myself. From their expressions I knew everything I felt was showing on my face, and I hate that. I grated out, “That was private.”
― Martha Wells, All Systems Red

“Did humanity once “sleepwalk” during the day? Was Homo sapiens preceded by Homo roboticus? And is Homo sapiens actually just a cloak that Homo roboticus wears, i.e., Homo roboticus remains the core human? If you remove the “wise” cloak, you go straight back to the robot. All humans are robots underneath, and the controllers of modern society are much more interested in the robot than the person.”
― Rob Armstrong, Homo Roboticus: The Inner Human Robot Revealed By Sleepwalking and Hypnosis

“And I admired her walk as she strolled away. Neither my mother nor Issac Asimov had warned me about girls like her.”
― Ray Faraday Nelson, Virtual Zen

“Education without values give birth to slaves and robots not educated human beings!”
― Habib Bilal

“No, he would simply go to town and use the public library. That was the proper self-reliant thing to do-- the correct way for a free robot to handle a problem, he told himself.
…
To the library, yes.
And he would dress for the occasion. Yes. Yes. Humans did not enter the public library unclothed. Neither would he.”
― Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man

“They have all let me do what I delt I needed to do, Anfew thought, even when they privately disagreed with it. THey have granted me my wishes-- out of love for me.
Yes, love. For a robot.”
― Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man

“They have all let me do what I felt I needed to do, Andrew thought, even when they privately disagreed with it. They have granted me my wishes-- out of love for me.

Yes, love. For a robot.

”
― Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, The Positronic Man

“But then, it had never really been about faith for Singularity. How often had she said that none that desire worship deserve it.”
― Jayson Jolin, Prophecy

“I’m popular with people who want to kill me.”
― Jayson Jolin, Soul: Part One

“You realize you're about to create a bunch of time traveling robots, don't you? Pretty sure that's how The Terminator started.”
― Nathan Van Coops, The Warp Clock

“Are you truly a robot?"
"Truly, sir," said Daneel.
Pelorat's face seemed to shine with joy. He said, "There are references to a robot named Daneel in the old legends. Are you named in his honor?"
"I am that robot," said Daneel. "It is not a legend."
"Oh no," said Pelorat. "If you are that robot, you would have to be thousands of years old."
"Twenty thousand," said Daneel quietly.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Earth

“Society is against the heart, because the heart lives through love. And love cannot be controlled and conditioned. The heart is basically rebellious. The heart always lives in the moment. It never repeats the old. The heart always responds to the present moment. This is why society is against the heart. Society disciplines the head, because the head functionslike a machine. Machines are never rebellious. They simply follow orders. They are obedient. Hence the state, the church and the establishment, the status quo, are interested in the head.
Our heart is the door to allow existence to guide us – instead of being directed by our own ideas, attitudes and preconceived expectations of how life should be. The heart creates inconvenience for society and for the established order. The heart is spontaneous and never repeats the old. The head lives in the past, which is why the head is traditional and conventional. 
The heart relates to unconditional love and acceptance both for ourselves and for other people.  The heart relates to qualities such as empathy, joy, acceptance, trust, intuition, understanding, compassion, playfulness, healing, friendship, sincerity and a sense of oneness in love.
Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being, with our authentic self, withthe meditative quality within, with the inner silence and emptiness. This inner emptiness is experienced by others and is expressed on the outside as love. This love is not addressed to a specific person; it is a presence that surrounds a person like a fragrance.
Love is perfect as it is. Love is enough unto itself. Love has to be understood. Love is the flight of your consciousness to higher realms beyond the body. Love is the fragrance of a rising consciousness. Love is like the fragrance of a flower. The moment you are overflowing with joy, a longing arises to share it. This sharing is love. Love is not something that you can get from somebody else, who has not attained to a state of joy.
Everybody is asking to be loved, and pretending to love. You cannot love, because you don't know what consciousness is. You don't know the truth; you don't know the experience of the divine.  You don't know what love is, because you have not yet gone deeper in your consciousness. In this ignorance and blindness love does not grow. If you really want to know love, forget about love and remember meditation.
Love is the defeat of all imposed rules and conditions. hence there is  a struggle between the individual who follows his heart and the collective who follows the imposed order. The individual who follows his heart has to be aware of this struggle, because he is moving towards the freedom of being himself. Being himself means that he is not going to be ruled by the collective, by the crowd. It means that now he will live according to his own heart, according to his own light. When he becomes independent, he will start feeling that he is  becoming one with the whole, one with the universal. 
It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that we are not separated from life. We begin to understand that we are not small separate islands in a great ocean, but that life is one and that we all are small parts of the Whole. We begin to understand what is really important and meaningful in life. It is on the consciousness level of the heart that we begin to understand that life is about sharing, rather than hoarding. We begin to understand that life is about giving, rather than taking.”
― Swami Dhyan Giten, Meditation: A Love Affair with the Whole - Thousand and One Flowers of Silence, Love, Joy, Truth, Freedom, Beauty and the Divine

“Social intelligence is hard to reproduce with machine-executable logic. Therefore, it is concluded, human beings must become more like machines, in order to make the world more hospitable to robots.”
― Matthew B. Crawford, Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

“What a brain is made of isn't the essential thing: it's how the brain functions. Its thought patterns, its reaction time, its ability to reason and generalise from experience. Why does the whole issue have to be drown down to the level of organic cells versus positrons?”
― Isaac Asimov, The Positronic Man (Robot # 0.6) [Annotated]

“It is human to feel imperfect. That was what you wanted, above all else: to be human. And now that is what you are. The imperfections - the weaknesses - the imprecisions - they are the very things which define humans as human. And which drive them to transcend their own failings.”
― Isaac Asimov, The Positronic Man (Robot # 0.6) [Annotated]