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.
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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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The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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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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Refineries and distributors could have predicted January would be cold, ... There is much more to this than just the cartels.
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If we go out there, and we play well and win football games, all the good stuff will come with it. It's not my job to worry about something I can't control.
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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.
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Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight.
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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.
