Neill Blomkamp Quotes

Nobody complains that Bernini's sculptures are too darn real, right? Or that Norman Rockwell's paintings are too creepy. Well, robots can seem real and be loved, too. We're trying to make a new art medium out of robotics.

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

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

I am the Chenbot!

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

Everybody's out there wrestling like a robot.

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.

And Roger was crazy with his robots and everything.

I have never seen a human being who more perfectly represented the modern conception of a robot.

'Baymax' is quite different. I think when Don Hall found the title and didn't know it, he researched and saw great potential in the relationship between a boy and a robot.

I am more on the side of humans than robots.

When those super intelligence goes into robots, those robots with the super intelligence will change our lives.

'Debug' is '2001' from Hal's perspective.

As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

I think whatever is going on with my brain, I'm very, very - and I'm not saying this as a positive thing, it's just a fact - I'm very creative. I have a very strong imagination, and have since I was a little kid. That is where a lot of my world comes from. It's like I'm off somewhere else. And I can have a problem in life because of that, because I'm always off in some other world thinking about something else. It's constant.

Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs.

Art goes on in your head. If you said something interesting, that might be a title for a work of art and I'd write it down.

I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools.

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

I think that the artificial-intelligence people are making a lot of noise recently, claiming that artificial intelligence is making huge progress and we're going to be outstripped by the machines.

I feel like maybe I'm going to be in with the robots because they'll see the show [Westworld] and think I'm one of them.

A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.

Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!