Spider Robinson Quotes
Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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Writers of historical fiction are not under the same obligation as historians to find evidence for the statements they make. For us it is sufficient if what we say can't be disproved or shown to be false.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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According to Jewish legend, only the very wisest and very holiest rabbis had the power to make golems, animated servants of clay. Strictly speaking, the golem is not in the same class with Frankenstein's monster, because the golem is neither alive nor dead. He is, rather, the ancestor of all robots.
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
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I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
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Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
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All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
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In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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It is my conviction that in general women are more snobbish and class conscious than men and that these ignoble traits are a product of men's attitude toward women and women's passive acceptance of this attitude.
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I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale. And you know, so much of science fiction has to do with predicting what’s to come, so I think that’s really interesting.
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I think human society for tens of thousands of years has sent young men out in small groups to do things that are necessary but very dangerous. And they've always gotten killed doing it. And they've always turned it into a matter of honor and a way of gaining acceptance back into society if they survived.
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I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human tendency because of our culture to think that the more people I talk to, the bigger the impact I'll have, and yet Jesus didn't spend His time just speaking to the masses. He spent the bulk of his time with a small group of people.
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Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
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I recycle and try to be nice to the earth. But flora and fauna have always interested me, and it is because of so many years of summer camp and growing up in DC with Rock Creek Park fairly near me, or Glover Park; I lived in Glover Park for a while and that park was in my backyard.
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Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.
