Automatons Quotes

19 quotes by 19 authors

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic,… — Jo Brand
Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated tasks, and as costs to… — Tim Field
It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons. — Gregory A. Boyd
The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you? — Vernor Vinge
Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight us… — Rodney Brooks
Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what makes life so interesting. The… — Daisaku Ikeda
I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit… — Richard Jefferies
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.' — Robert A. Heinlein
What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard it is to keep your… — Randall Munroe
If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the mass spirit, dominates everywhere, destroying… — Emma Goldman
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to… — Ma Jian
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. — Anais Nin
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. — Evgeny Morozov
. . . freedom to creat and construct, to wonder and to venture. Such freedom requires that the individual be active and responsible, not a… — Erich Fromm
There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of… — Oscar Wilde
Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head… — Rick Riordan
A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for a second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of… — Thomas Jefferson
Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening… — Ben Shapiro
It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons. — Allen West

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