A cat is a soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“A character without motivation is an automaton. They’re just going through the motions.” — Nathan Bransford Copy Share Image
Man becomes virtually an automaton in the loss of his individuality and responsibility. He is the harp of a thousand strings played… — John Grier Hibben Copy Share Image
The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Was that Will?" she said finally. Henry arched one ginger eyebrow. "Perhaps he's been kidnapped and replaced by an automaton," he suggested.… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of bread snatched… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“What was it like to live amidst such machines, to be familiar with them, to have them shape one's earliest intuitions about… — Jessica Riskin Copy Share Image
Charles Babbage proposed to make an automaton chess-player which should register mechanically the number of games lost and gained in consequence of… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“Alan Turing’s halting problem: you can’t know if the cells will all die off without running the game until they do die… — Richard Bookstaber Copy Share Image
“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty… — Ernst Jentsch Copy Share Image
“I wish my genius ran to making automatons,” he said. “I would invent one that would follow you around with a tray.… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into… — Brian Selznick Copy Share Image
