Ancient Quote by Ken Goldberg

Nature (the Art whereby God hath made and governs the World) is by the Art of man, as in many other things, so in…

— Thomas Hobbes

A world of automata – of creatures that worked like machines – would hardly be worth creating.

— Anonymous

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and…

— Thomas Hobbes

A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in…

— William Henry Hudson

Early AI was mainly based on logic. You're trying to make computers that reason like people. The second route is from biology: You're trying…

— Geoffrey Hinton

Holland's and Kauffman's work, together with Dawkins' simulations of evolution and Varela's models of autopoietic systems, provide essential inspiration for the new discipline of…

— John Henry Holland

In its varied forms - from the mysterious brains of octopuses and the swarm-minds of ants to Go-playing deep learning machines and driverless-car autopilots…

— Bryan Johnson

Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from throughout history and delight…

— Rodney Brooks

All things are artificial, for nature is the art of God.

— Thomas Browne

Back in the twentieth century, we thought that robots would have taken over by this time, and, in a way, they have. But robots…

— Mary Norris

Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions…

— Donna J. Haraway

The artificial intelligence approach may not be altogether the right one to make to the problem of designing automatic assembly devices. Animals and machines…

— Maurice Wilkes