Humanoid Quotes

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

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

But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once and isn’t now, or ought to be Human and isn’t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet.

A man-like object

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

Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.

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.

I'm not a robot.

I don't drink blood, and last time I looked in the mirror, I had a reflection.

Yes, Data is hairless but I am not. And we are both anatomically correct.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

For me, it was a big challenge in playing an android that was almost human.

I'm not evil, but some people are freaked out by a living doll.

Yes, I see the Mobile Base System really is the shoulder of the arm. The arm is right there, like a human arm. It's really funny to look at the similarities between a human arm and the Canadian robotics arm.

People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.

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.

Are women necessary? Not with Ava around

Most efforts to approximate normal human behavior in software tend to be creepy or annoying.

We always found that many people are robots without knowing it. The interpreters of classical music, Horowitz for example, they are like robots, making a reproduction of the music which is always the same. It's automatic, and they do it as if it were natural, which is not true.