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.Spider Robinson
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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.
D'Arcy Carden -
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 -
'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 -
There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.
E. L. Doctorow -
For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
Vincent Bugliosi -
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
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If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
Veronica Roth -
I don't think Pulp Fiction is hard to watch at all.
Quentin Tarantino -
Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots.
Barney Oliver -
All conviction - and so, necessarily, conversion - is based on the motor and emotional aspects of the mind.
T. E. Hulme -
In really, really good science fiction, the line between the science and the fiction is blurry.
Damon Lindelof -
This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
Angelina Jolie
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
T. S. Eliot -
Anyone can write a specification, but if nobody implements it, what is it but a particularly dry form of science fiction.
Ian Hickson -
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 -
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
Tahereh Mafi -
The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
Konrad Zuse -
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.
Mary Barnett Gilson
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Why sunset is more colorful than sunrise? It's an irony of life saying, 'sometimes, good things happen in goodbyes.
Patrick Henry -
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
Roger de Bussy-Rabutin -
Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly working in Chicago where I began, you'd get in the back trunk of a car, and you'd have a friend drive the car, or you'd get in some kid's little wagon that he plays with and have someone pull that for dolly shots.
Haskell Wexler -
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