Calvin Trillin Quotes

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

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

We're fascinated with robots because they are reflections of ourselves.

The most advanced of them seemed hardly like human beings.

R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)

I think my favorite theory so far is that I am actually a robot. That's pretty great. In real life.

And I think it's likely that there will be Data's out there one day. I hope so, if there are, that they all look exactly like me!

I'm not a robot.

I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality.

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

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.

If you tried to turn figures into human form and give a computer flesh and blood you would probably end up with something like Mr. Jay. He is the personification of joylessness, the missing link between man and the machine.

Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul.

I'm kind of a robot in a way. Or a Tron.

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.

With Cyborg, this is a winnable fight for me.

I love looking at machines that mimic human behavior.

I actually learned about Cyborg through the cartoon shows, and I think that's how most people learn about Cyborg.

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.

Of course, the idea that a robot can have a sexual identity is kind of an absurd one.

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Our culture already has a number of well known stories about artificial life and non-human intelligence. In 'Exegesis,' I've tried to not only tell a new and engaging story but also to comment on those well known stories through the details of my novel.

Robots... I think that is a hot topic.

I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.