Rodney Brooks Quotes

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.

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

The future of the world is in the palm of the tech community.

Technology is the future. I love technology.

I see Grand Challenge not as the end of the robotics adventure we're on: it's almost like the beginning.

We're so excited about technology. We can help turn the impossible into the possible.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

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.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

The future is here.

If that's there, I believe that technology will probably step up to their part of it.

Technology is an enabler; you have to be at the cutting edge of technology - there is no choice.

Some people think technology has the answers.

We live in an age of miracles.

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

The concept of the robot encapsulates both aspects of technology. On one hand it's cool, it's fun, it's healthy, it's sexy, it's stylish. On the other hand it's terrifying, it's alienating, it's addictive, and it's scary. That has been the subject of much science-fiction literature.

Technology is fascinating.

We humans have a love-hate relationship with our technology. We love each new advance and we hate how fast our world is changing... The robots really embody that love-hate relationship we have with technology.

Robots are interesting because they exist as a real technology that you can really study - you can get a degree in robotics - and they also have all this pop-culture real estate that they take up in people's minds.

Our technology has already outstripped our ability to control it.

Science and technology is going to change every day for the rest of your lives.

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

Technology will save us if it doesn't wipe us out first.

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

I would say that nanotech's worth paying attention to no matter what your background because if you look far enough into the future, it'll impact just about any industry you can think of.