#robot

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

— Erich Fromm

#became #become #danger #future #man

I'll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#i #person #robotic #shuttle #using

I was really overwhelmed by the amount of roles that I got offered that were carbon copies of what I did in 'Up in the Air.' I got every offer for every ambitious, unfeeling practically robotic character. ↗

— Anna Kendrick

#ambitious #amount #carbon #character #copies

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who... think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors... understand that that's part of the craft. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#certainly #craft #emerging #generation #going

But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. ↗

— Harry Dean Stanton

#future #i #imaginative #into #like

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough. ↗

— Eric Stoltz

#enough #here #kid #most #our

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#energetic #exhausting #find #life #lots

And Elvex said, "I was the man." - In "Robot dreams" (Short story) ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#science-fiction #dreams

What's casual for a robot isn't necessarily what's casual for a human. ↗

— Alan Tudyk

#human #necessarily #robot

Human social life, I suggest, is the magma that erupts and builds up, so to speak, at the fault lines where natural human capacities meet and grind against and over natural human limitations…. This meeting of powers and limitations produces a creative, dynamic tension and energy that generates and fuels the making of human social life and social structures…. It is real human persons living through the tensions of natural existential contradictions who construct patterned social meanings, interactions, institutions, and structures. ↗

— Christian Smith

#human-nature #humanism #identity #personalism #personhood