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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• Our nano-quadrotor robots are made to be as lightweight as possible: less than a fifth of a pound and palm-sized. They can do an aerial backflip in half a second, accelerate at two Gs, and fly rotor blade to rotor blade in three-dimensional formations - and they do all this autonomously.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Fly
  • Possible
  • Robots

• 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.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• 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.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Find
  • Same
  • Fiction

• '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.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Life
  • Real
  • Reality

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Humans

• 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.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Power
  • Monster
  • Legend

• If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • New
  • Read
  • Fiction

• I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Fiction
  • Watch

• Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Great
  • Wise
  • Army

• All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Mind
  • Emotional
  • Conviction

• In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Good
  • Science
  • Fiction

• This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Humans
  • Behavior
  • Scripts

• The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Passion
  • Humans
  • Majority

• Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.

  

  Ian Hickson
  • Writing
  • Science
  • Fiction

• the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Humans
  • Human Beings
  • Snob

• I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • Character
  • Imagination
  • Fiction

• The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

  

  Konrad Zuse
  • Great
  • Humans
  • Danger

• Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

  

  Monica Potter
  • Heart
  • Realizing
  • Disease

• To me, my nephew is the angel of my world. It is my absolute happiest moment whenever he smiles at me. I have stopped working 24 hours a day like I was before, and I rush back home to see him whenever I can after work. That always makes my day.

  

  Li Bingbing
  • World
  • Work
  • Home

• My first degree was in mathematics. That was great, but it didn't help with many of the things that puzzled me. I became a philosopher because I wanted to understand everything, especially those things that didn't make sense. And that has continued to be my philosophical motivation. That's one reason I have such a roving philosophical eye - once I have figured out a philosophical topic to my satisfaction, I find myself moving on to new problems.

  

  David Papineau
  • Problem
  • Helping
  • motivation

• I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Never
  • Emotional
  • Forgotten

• The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak human, not the other way around.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • Humans
  • Fiction
  • Conviction