Karel Capek Quotes
Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.
First use of the term robot to indicate an artificial human.
Karel Capek, 1890-1938, Czech author and playwright, R.U. R, 1920
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He was one of the fathers of modern computer science and the first serious programmer. Before there were computers generally available, he had programmed special IBM machines to crack the German’s “uncrackable” Enigma code.
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This was the title of a science fiction play he wote in 1920. In it he coined the term "robot"
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Karel Čapek was a Czech writer, playwright and critic. He has become best known for his science fiction, including his novel War with the Newts (1936) and play R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots, 1920), which introduced the word robot. He also wrote many politically charged works dealing with the social turmoil of his time. Influenced by American pragmatic liberalism, he campaigned in favour of free expression and strongly opposed the rise of both fascism and communism in Europe.
