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It's dangerous to be people-blind.
Demolition is a part of construction.
Memories fade but words hang around forever.
Technology changes, but people stay the same.
A mechanic is just an engineer in blue jeans.
You don't pick your revolution. It picks you.
...humanity learns true lessons only in cataclysm.
If the knowledge is spread, it cannot be stamped out.
We are all expressions of our own minds, projected onto the world.
It's hard to wipe your eyes when you have whirring buzzsaws for hands.
It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees.
When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.
Without us here to witness, the universe is just pointless physics unfolding.
You don't want to stand too close to a robot arm; it can turn your head to mush.
There are no truer choices than those made in crisis, choices made without judgment.
Humans are inscrutable. Infinitely unpredictable. This is what makes them dangerous.
Personally, I'm not afraid of a robot uprising. The benefits far outweigh the threats.
The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things.
I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
Change creates fear, and technology creates change. Sadly, most people don't behave very well when they are afraid.
You probably found 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising' in the humor section. Let's just hope that is where it belongs.
If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace.
It's hard to guess how smart the machines are, but a good rule of thumb is that they're always smarter than you think.
In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.
There are an endless number of things to discover about robotics. A lot of it is just too fantastic for people to believe.
People need meaning as much as they need air. Lucky for us, we can give meaning to each other for free. Just by being alive.
For people who have been raised on text-based interactions, just speaking on the telephone can be high bandwidth to the point of anxiety.
A soul isn't given for free. The races of men fight each other to the death for the honor of being recognized as human beings, with souls.
Across the sea of space lies an infinite emptiness. I can feel it, suffocating me. It is without meaning. But each life creates its own reality.
You want to know what a robot's designed for. And if it's doing something outside the scope of what it's made to do, you should be very suspicious.
To survive, humans will work together. Accept each other. For a moment, we are all equal. Backs against the wall, human beings are at their finest.
How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.
Robots should stand up for themselves and not try to be humans. They should either utterly destroy us or protect us from aliens. And vampires. And pirates.
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels.
I absolutely believe that a lot of the issues raised in 'Amped' about technology migrating into our bodies are issues that we're really going to deal with soon.
Human reactions to robots varies by culture and changes over time. In the United States we are terrified by killer robots. In Japan people want to snuggle with killer robots.
Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago.
Johannes Cabal would kill me for saying this, but he's my favorite Zeppelin-hopping detective. The fellow has got all the charm of Bond and the smarts of Holmes--without the pesky morality.
We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.
In the end, perhaps it will be the true romantics, not the nerds, who choose to flee from a world of impersonal, digitized relationships and into the arms of simulacrums with manners imported from simpler times.
A robot-arm in a factory doesn't decide minute by minute whether to rivet or revolt - it just does the job is has literally been trained to do. It's if and when we build a conscious robot that we may have to worry.
Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.
I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was to start writing fiction, and I guess one day I'd just had enough.
No matter how much kids beg to be treated like adults, nobody likes to let go of their childhood. You wish for it and dream of it and the second you have it, you wonder what you've done. You wonder what it is you've become.
Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Luckily, unreasonable expectations go hand in hand with naive young scientists. The more naive the better - otherwise we would never have the audacity to try and build a 22,000-mile-high space elevator or some sprawling underwater hotel.
We've been co-evolving with our technology for a hundred thousand years. Human beings and the technology we make were always inseparable. We're finally coming into this moment where it's coming inside our body for the first time in history.
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than 'able-bodied' folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
These days the technology can solve our problems and then some. Solutions may not only erase physical or mental deficits but leave patients better off than "able-bodied" folks. The person who has a disability today may have a superability tomorrow.
Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.