206 Quotes About Robots

There is much which we must leave, whether we like it or not, to the un-"scientific' narrative method of the professional historian.

Can a robot be brave? Can it selflessly sacrifice? Can a robot, trained to identify and engage targets, have some sense of ethics or restraint?

I was speaking metaphorically,’ Eggor said, speaking laconically.

Since emotions are few and reasons many, the behavior or a crowd can bemore easily predicted than the behavior of one person can. And that, in turn, means that if laws are to be developed that enable the current of history to be predicted, then one must deal with large populations, the larger the better. That might itself be the First Law of Psychohistory, the key to the study of Humanics. Yet.'R. Giskard Reventlov

Robots do not celebrate anything. Celebration is an expression of joy, which cannot be mechanized.

The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.

Aimless extension of knowledge, however, which is what I think you really mean by the term curiosity, is merely inefficiency. I am designed to avoid inefficiency.

Yes,” Lisa said with the usual blank honestly. She frowned. “Was that a sincere question? Or a scolding rhetorical question akin to Harilotecca’s speech patterns?

I can almost see the processes whirrling clunkily in his singularix, as his excited nervous system battled with his logic circuits.