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