quotes about robots

                   quotes  about robots

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines CLAUDE SHANNON, The Mathematical Theory of Communication Let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics.... We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. ISAAC ASIMOV, Astounding Science Fiction, Mar. 1942 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 “Togolese,” they will destroy their world and themselves because they cannot stand any longer the boredom of a meaningless life. ERICH FROMM, The Sane Society We are survival machines -- robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. RICHARD DAWKINS, The Selfish Gene    Man is a robot with defects. EMILE CIORAN, The Trouble With Being Born Making realistic robots is going to polarize the market, if you will. You will have some people who love it and some people who will really be disturbed. DAVID HANSON, CNN.com, Nov. 23, 2006 If you make [robots] perfectly realistic, you trigger this body-snatcher fear in some people. DAVID HANSON, CNN.com, Nov. 23, 2006 Machines smart enough to do anything for us will probably also be  able to do anything with us: go to dinner, own property, compete for sexual partners. They might even have passionate opinions about politics or, like the robots on Battlestar Galactica, even religious beliefs. Some have worried about robot rebellions, but with so many tort lawyers around to apply the brakes, the bigger question is this: Will humanoid machines enrich our social lives, or will they be a new kind of television, destroying our relationships with real humans? FRED HAPGOOD, Discover Magazine, June 2008 You gotta be pretty desperate to make it with a robot. HOMER SIMPSON, The Simpsons The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man. MAX FRISCH, Homo Faber: A Report We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design. DAN SIMMONS, Endymion At bottom, robotics is about us. It is the discipline of emulating our lives, of wondering how we work. ROD GRUPEN, Discover Magazine, June 2008