Karel Capek Quotes

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

If we are machines, then in principle at least, we should be able to build machines out of other stuff, which are just as alive as we are.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.

Being a sci-fi geek myself and going to movies all my life, I came to the conclusion that there were really two camps of how robots have been designed. It's either the tin man, which is a human with metal skin, or it's an R2D2.

We can make life in the computer. Granted, it's limited, but we have learned what it takes in order to actually construct it.

I can't imagine that life can be replaced with a computer universe. I can't accept it.

It won’t be long before we all number synthetic creatures among our friends.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

Equipment has heart, human heart, inside it.

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.

At the end of the day, at 49 years old, it's realistic to believe that a Terminator has a heart.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

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.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

AI does not keep me up at night. Almost no one is working on conscious machines. Deep learning algorithms, or Google search, or Facebook personalization, or Siri or self driving cars or Watson, those have the same relationship to conscious machines as a toaster does to a chess-playing computer.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

I'm not a robot.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon.

Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.

I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics.