Morrie Schwartz Quotes

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

Whether it's created in a lab, written by a programmer, or lands on the White House lawn as a visitor from the stars, if it acts like a human being, it is a human being.

We all have friends we love dearly that couldn't pass for human in a strict Turing test.

Because I believe that humans are computers, I conjectured that computers, like people, can have left- and right-handed versions.

Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.

Most of us are consumed with our own thoughts and desires and are not always thinking about what other people may want. This is not necessarily being egocentric; it is just being human.

Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

A man-like object

I learned a lot about the law at Harvard Law School, but no one taught me about why a 20-year old black male in a tough neighborhood feels like he needs to be armed. Nobody taught me about what attracts kids to join gangs.... It is difficult to stand in judgment of other human beings without understanding human beings.

I think human nature is eternal and constant.

What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?

I really like investigating the things that make us human.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.

Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.

I find human behavior really interesting. I think that's ultimately what being an actor is. You explore what it means to be human.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Human nature is the same everywhere; the modes only are different.