Memes and Stuff
Man is a robot with defects.
- Emile Cioran
Mathematical science shows what is.
It is the language of unseen relations
between things.
- Ada Lovelace
On close analysis,
it would seem that
there is a possibility
that we are God's robots.
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
In a properly automated and educated world,
then, machines may prove to be the true
humanizing influence.
- Isaac Azimov
Science is not only
a disciple of reason
but, also, one of
romance and passion.
- Stephen Hawking
If you don’t want a generation
of robots, fund the arts.
- Cath Crowley
I’m strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I’ve never been perfect
But neither have you.
- Chester Bennington
The production of too many
useful things results in
too many useless people.
- Karl Marx
Most reckless things are beautiful
in some way, and recklessness
is what makes
experimental art beautiful.
- John Ashbery
To make robots practical, flaws
must be removed. To make robots
endearing, flaws must be added.
- Khang Kijarro Nguyn
Our daily routines combined with
the need for protocol and codes of conduct
creates robots out of all of us.
- Tamsin Hull
It’s hard to wipe your eyes when you have
whirring buzzsaws for hands.
- Daniel H. Wilson
Intelligence involves a great deal more
than the ability to follow rules …
It is also the ability to make up
the rules for oneself.
- Steve Grand
In the twenty-first century,
the robot will take the place
which slave labor occupied
in ancient civilization.
- Nikola Tesla
The real problem is not
whether machines think
but whether men do.
- B.F. Skinner
If you lend your consciousness
to someone else, you’re
a robot.
- Prince
One day the AIs are going
to look back on us the same
way we look at fossil skeletons
on the plains of Africa.
- Ex machina
You don’t have to take it out on my
typewriter, ya know. It’s not the
machine’s fault that you can’t write.
- Sam Shepard
Your antagonist has to be
every bit as formidable
as your hero.
- Jonathan Demme
One has to look out for engineers.
They begin with sewing machines
and end up with the atomic bomb.
- Marcel Pagnol
Grateful for artists who are willing to
make us uncomfortable
in service of a deeper truth.
- Dana Harrison
Foster dignity. Live memorably.
Love yourself. Endure.
- John Perry Barlow
In consequence of inventing machines,
men will be devoured by them.
- Jules Verne
You can’t be brave if you’ve only
had wonderful things happen to you.
- Mary Tyler Moore
One machine can do the work of
fifty ordinary men. No machine can do
the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard
All real communities grow
out of a shared confrontation
with survival.
- Larry Harvey