Karel Capek Quotes

Technology is the future, I have seen the third industrial revolution, and we are in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution.

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 just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

I worked with Stanley Kubrick for almost a year back in 1990, trying to develop the screen story for his project 'Artificial Intelligence,' which is about a robot boy who wishes to become a real boy, a future scientific fairy tale inspired in the myth of Pinocchio.

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

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines.

In a few years the androids will be working for us. Let’s hope that we never have to work for them

Virtual reality, all the A.I. work we do, all the robotics work we do - we're as close to realizing science fiction as it gets.

When I look out in the future, I can't imagine a world, 500 years from now, where we don't have robots everywhere.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

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

I think Google is a great company, and they're doing really cool things. But they're not doing things that are going to put us, I think, into the next generation of technology.

In the future, I'm sure there will be a lot more robots in every aspect of life. If you told people in 1985 that in 25 years they would have computers in their kitchen, it would have made no sense to them.

I had a great time creating the future on 'Minority Report,' and it's a future that is coming true faster than any of us thought it would.

And we should keep our minds open, or at least ajar, to concepts on the fringe of science fiction. Flaky American futurologists aren't always wrong. They remind us that a superintelligent machine is the last instrument that humans may ever design - the machine will itself take over in making further steps.

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

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

The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.

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

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

With the advent of computing, human invention crossed a threshold into a world different from everything that came before. The computer is the universal machine almost by definition, machine-of-all-trades, capable of accomplishing or simulating just about any task that can be logically defined.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Robots have a rich and storied history in movies.

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.