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I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) QUOTES

I, Robot (Robot, #0.1) QUOTES

1 " I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

2 " All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

3 " It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

4 " There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

5 " It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

6 " It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you? "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

7 " There is no Master but the Master,” he said, “and QT-1 is his prophet. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

8 " The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

9 " They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

10 " These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

11 " You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

12 " Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

13 " you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

14 " You are the only one responsible for your own wants. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

15 " Because, if you stop to think of it, the three Rules of Robotics are the essential guiding principles of a good many of the world’s ethical systems. Of course, every human being is supposed to have the instinct of self-preservation. That’s Rule Three to a robot. Also every ‘good’ human being, with a social conscience and a sense of responsibility, is supposed to defer to proper authority; to listen to his doctor, his boss, his government, his psychiatrist, his fellow man; to obey laws, to follow rules, to conform to custom—even when they interfere with his comfort or his safety. That’s Rule Two to a robot. Also, every ‘good’ human being is supposed to love others as himself, protect his fellow man, risk his life to save another. That’s Rule One to a robot. To put it simply—if Byerley follows all the Rules of Robotics, he may be a robot, and may simply be a very good man. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

16 " People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you? "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

17 " Oh, hell! I can’t sleep!” “Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle.”   Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

18 " You’ll have such proof as exists. You are the only one responsible for your own wants. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

19 " A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)

20 " The unwritten motto of United States Robot and Mechanical Men Corp. was well-known: “No employee makes the same mistake twice. He is fired the first time. "

― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)