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, or why they never rea…
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Quotes tagged ‘Robots’
Hobb: Robert, these machines are conscious! Robert: How do you know they don't just simulate it? Hobb: How do I know you don't?
— Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, Hobb, Danny Webb, imdb.com
This raises the question: As we grope toward the brave new automated world, is a university degree in, say, economics, philosophy, English, or anything else that isn’t to do with fixing cobots (collaborative robots) or writing algorithms, worth the PDF file it was exported on? Or is it, practically…
Bart: Are there any jive-talking robots in this play? Marge: I don't think so. Homer: Bart, don't ask stupid questions. Is there any frontal nudity? Marge: No, Homer.
If you take away our cartoons, we'll grow up without a sense of humor and be robots.
— George Meyer, John Swartzwelder, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com
I'm Doctor Who in this motherfucker! I could be a clone! I could be a hologram! We could clones controlled by robots controlled by special headsets that the real Rick and Morty are wearing while they're fucking your mother!
— Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon, Rick Sanchez (voice), Justin Roiland, imdb.com
SpongeBob: Well, in the movie the hero teams up with a buddy, and they get the poop on the robot. Squidward: They poop on the robot? SpongeBob: Yeah, you know, get straight poop, ask questions, get information.
— Kent Osborne, Paul Tibbitt, Spongebob Squarepants, Tom Kenny, imdb.com
Weak logic, inconsistencies and alienation from the people are common features of authoritarianism. The relentless attempts of totalitarian regimes to prevent free thought and new ideas and the persistent assertion of their own rightness bring on them an intellectual stasis which they project on to…
Intelligent people have spent far too much time talking about robots. What we need is fewer people imagining what robots could do and more people thinking about racism.
When robots become as smart and capable as human beings, there will be nothing left for people to do because machines will be both stronger and smarter than humans.
I'm not a robot; I have a personality and I have emotions. I have a humorous side to me and an angry side to me.
I feel like a robot, I told a friend, robotically.
A new analysis of 17 years of data shows that not only are robots taking jobs away from low-skilled workers, but the move to automation is also lowering wages for existing jobs.
Someday there’ll be a robot in every house, doing the dishes, making the beds, even looking after the children while the parents work.
By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
iPhone maker Foxconn has replaced more than half its workforce with robots since the iPhone 6 was launched.
The second [coming disruption] is telerobotics. There are a couple of well-known ones. One is the surgeon operating at a 100-kilometer distance from the patient. But you can imagine that hotel rooms in London could be cleaned by people driving robots sitting in Kenya or Buenos Aires or wherever, for…
We shouldn’t try and protect jobs; we should protect workers. It’s really a fool’s errand to struggle with because after a year or two those jobs will still go. Either they will be replaced by robots or they’ll move to Mexico or China.
I’m waiting for them to invent a pleasure robot that’s so lifelike, it won’t have sex with me.