79+ Best Robot Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Robot is a machine controlled by a computer that is used to perform jobs automatically. Profoundly inspirational robot quotes will fire up your brain and encourage you to look at life differently while making you laugh.

If you’re searching for motivational science quotes that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of significant computer science quotes, best electricity quotes and greatest geography quotes.

Famous Robot Quotes

Actions such as his could come only from a robot, or from a very honorable and decent human being. But you see, you just can’t differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

Robots will someday, or maybe, wake up. They may be really smart. They may be as creative, smart and capable as human beings, and fully conscious, and self discerning with free will. David Hanson

If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense. Isaac Asimov, The Foundation Series

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. Daniel H. Wilson

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them with robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. Isaac Asimov, ‘I, Robot

Robots will harvest, cook, and serve our food. They will work in our factories, drive our cars, and walk our dogs. Like it or not, the age of work is coming to an end. Gray Scott

I’m sorry, but you don’t understand. These are robots  and that means they are reasoning beings. They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do. They call me the prophet

Unfortunately robots capable of manufacturing robots do not exist. That would be the philosopher’s stone, the squaring of the circle. Ernst Jünger

By using human ova and hormone control, one can grow human flesh and skin over a skeleton of porous silicone plastics that would defy external examination. Dr. Alfred Lanning, ‘I, Robot

We can make robots that learn from mistakes, yet man still makes the same ones over, and over. Anthony T. Hincks

Think about the Machines for a while, Stephen. They are robots, and they follow the First Law. But the Machines work not for any single human being, but for all humanity, so that the First Law becomes: No Machine may harm humanity; or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm. Isaac Asimov, ‘I, Robot

To make robots practical, flaws must be removed. To make robots endearing, flaws must be added. Khang Kijaro Nguyen

Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions

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. Daniel H. Wilson

You can’t understand human motivation. You can only understand your damned machines because you’re a machine yourself, with skin on. Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions

Robots are the new middle class. And everyone else will either be an entrepreneur or a temp staffer. James Altucher

He was a primitive robot, and to him people were people It did not surprise him that human beings had grown so civilized and humane. His circuitry forced him, in any case, to view all human beings as civilized and human; even as god like, to use an old fashioned phrase. Isaac Asimov, Robot Visions

Robots touch something deeply human within us. For me, robots are all about people. Cynthia Breazeal

A robot is infinitely more to be trusted than a human nursemaid. Robbie was constructed for only one purpose really  to be the companion of a little child. He just can’t help being faithful and loving and kind. He’s machine made. That’s more than you can say for humans. Isaac Asimov, Robbie

Anything humans can do in space, robots can do better. Trevor Paglen

The easiest way for a cyborg to offer the proof is for him to demonstrate that he is not bound by the Three Laws of Robotics. Since the Three Laws enforce socially acceptable behavior, this means he must demonstrate that he is capable of human i.e. nasty behavior. Isaac Asimov, Cybernetic Organism

Then you don’t remember a world without robots. There was a time when humanity faced the universe alone and without a friend. Dr. Susan Calvin, ‘I, Robot

We’re seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It’s a golden age of invention. David Hanson

To you, a robot is gears and metal. But they’re a cleaner better breed than we are. Dr. Susan Calvin, ‘I, Robot

No one asks a robot what he wants.

Now a human caught in an impossibility often responds by a retreat from reality. And so the robot. Dr. Susan Calvin, ‘I, Robot

Old robots are becoming more human and young humans are becoming more like robots. Lorin Morgan Richards

A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Isaac Asimov, ‘I, Robot

If you look at the field of robotics today, you can say robots have been in the deepest oceans, they’ve been to Mars, you know? They’ve been all these places, but they’re just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots. Cynthia Breazeal

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect. Arthur C. Clarke, ‘2010: Odyssey Two

Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy. So, if they achieve human level intelligence or, quite possibly, greater than human levels of intelligence, this could be the seeds of hope for our future. David Hanson

Here’s another one of those self-satisfied doors. Life! Don’t talk to me about life. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy

When the robot mind is mastered, undisciplined thinking ceases and is replaced by awareness. Awareness can know love. Barry Long

It is not enough to live together in peace, with one race on its knees. Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

Knowing how to keep someone motivated and how to keep a connection are skills humans have learned and evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. A robot can’t figure out whether you can do one more push up, or how to motivate you to actually do it. Erik Brynjolfsson

The true knowledge is not in the things, but in finding the connections between the things. Daniel H. Wilson, Robopocalypse

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. It would take off on its own, and re design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded. Stephen Hawking told the BBC

Over the road, there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws. Russell Brand, My Booky Wook

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines. Claude Shannon

Technology changes, but people stay the same. Daniel H. Wilson

The pace of progress in artificial intelligence I’m not referring to narrow AI is incredibly fast. Unless you have direct exposure to groups like Deepmind, you have no idea how fast it is growing at a pace close to exponential. The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year time frame. 10 years at most.

If you work hard and stay in line, the machines feed you and keep you warm and alive. Daniel H. Wilson

The upheavals of artificial intelligence can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic. Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

An android, he said, ‘doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for. Philip K. Dick, ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?

I don’t want to really scare you, but it was alarming how many people I talked to who are highly placed people in AI who have retreats that are sort of ‘bug out’ houses, to which they could flee if it all hits the fan.

The moment is God’s will. Life reveals itself only to the conscious. The disharmony is in the robot mind’s desire to control life to suit its individual interests  an impossibility; but you keep trying. Barry Long, Knowing Yourself

The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that? Gray Scott

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. Daniel H. Wilson

We must address, individually and collectively, moral and ethical issues raised by cutting edge research in artificial intelligence and biotechnology, which will enable significant life extension, designer babies, and memory extraction.  Klaus Schwab

Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just programmed? Marissa Meyer

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we’ll augment our intelligence. Ginni Rometty

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots. Erich Fromm

You have to talk about ‘The Terminator’ if you’re talking about artificial intelligence. I actually think that that’s way off. I don’t think that an artificially intelligent system that has superhuman intelligence will be violent. I do think that it will disrupt our culture. Gray Scott

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody. Douglas Adams

If the government regulates against use of drones or stem cells or artificial intelligence, all that means is that the work and the research leave the borders of that country and go someplace else. Peter Diamandis

When a robot dies, you don’t have to write a letter to its mother. P. W. Singer

The key to artificial intelligence has always been representation. Jeff Hawkins

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope  it operates according to the pure logic of probability. Max Frisch

It’s going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool. Colin Angle

We are survival machines  robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes. Richard Dawkins

Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. Diane Ackerman

There are three things that robots cannot do, wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote Show preference without reason Love and then Doubt rational decisions Regret and finally Trust data from a previously unreliable source Forgive Lydia Netzer, Shine Shine Shine

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower. Alan Kay

I always thought the key to immortality would be, like, tiny robots fixing things in your brain. Robin Sloan, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It’s really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. Sebastian Thrun

Factory settings a contemporary synonym for fate. Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. Alan Perlis

The island was teeming with life. And now it had a new kind of life. A strange kind of life. Artificial life. Peter Brown

There is no reason and no way that a human mind can keep up with an artificial intelligence machine by 2035. Gray Scott

It’s great progress to give birth by machine. It’s faster and more convenient. Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Karel Čapek, ‘R.U.R’.

Is artificial intelligence less than our intelligence? Spike Jonze

The whole world wanted its Robots. My boy, we did nothing but ride the avalanche of demand, and all the while kept blathering on about technology, about the social question, about progress, about very interesting things. Karel Čapek, ‘R.U.R’

The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence. Jean Baudrillard

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke

Before we work on artificial intelligence why don’t we do something about natural stupidity? Steve Polyak

I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools. Ray Bradbury