Marilyn Minter Quotes

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

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

Not everybody is Cindy Crawford.

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.

We are still fearful, superstitious and all-too-human creatures. At times, we forget the magnitude of the havoc we can wreak by off-loading our minds onto super-intelligent machines, that is, until they run away from us, like mad sorcerers' apprentices, and drag us up to the precipice for a look down into the abyss.

We're seeing the arrival of conversational robots that can walk in our world. It's a golden age of invention.

I particularly felt that my job in management was safe from the incursion of machines with friendly faces painted on the front of their heads, or whatever you call the metal constructions atop their shoulders, if those are indeed shoulders.

So one begins to wonder what is going to happen to the human race. Technology keeps on advancing with greater and greater power, either for good or for destruction.

If you don't want to be replaced by a machine, don't try to act like one!

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

People say, like, 'Are you a regular person?' 'Well, I'm not a robot, if that's what you're asking, I really am a person.'

The girl next door isn't necessarily blonde and blue-eyed anymore. So I don't feel like I need to morph into that all-American thing.

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.

Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that is what is unique about human beings.

The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'

When a machine can do something better and faster than a person can, I am happy to let the machine do it.

Machines are what enable the human race to move forward and up, and machines have always been physical,. Computers are the first devices that actually help the mind.

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

If we want it, we will have machines who will take care of us.

Ultimately, it's not going to be about man versus machine. It is going to be about man with machines.

When we have machines that are as intelligent - and then twice as intelligent - as we are, there is no reason why that relationship cannot be synergistic rather than antagonistic.

Terminator' is a reflection of how the world is changing.

I don't think Cyborg has ever felt the aggressiveness and the power that I will bring to her.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: If machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?