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" I like you two. You’re inferior creatures, with poor reasoning faculties, but I really feel a sort of affection for you. You have served the Master well, and he will reward you for that. Now that your service is over, you will probably not exist much longer, but as long as you do, you shall be provided food, clothing and shelter, so long as you stay out of the control room and the engine room. "
― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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" All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resents domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger. Physically, and, to an extent, mentally, a robot—any robot—is superior to human beings. What makes him slavish, then? Only the First Law! Why, without it, the first order you tried to give a robot would result in your death. Unstable? What do you think?” “Susan, "
― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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" Do you expect him to say to you, ‘So-and-so is a robot because he hardly ever eats with people, and I have never seen him fall asleep in the middle of a case; and once when I peeped into his window in the middle of the night, there he was, sitting up with a book; and I looked in his frigidaire and there was no food in it.’ “If he told you that, you would send for a strait-jacket. But if he tells you, ‘He never sleeps; he never eats,’ then the shock of the statement blinds you to the fact that such statements are impossible to prove. You play into his hands by contributing to the to-do. "
― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
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" - Fíjate en ti -dijo finalmente-. No lo digo con espíritu de desprecio, pero fíjate bien. Estás hecho de un material blando y flojo, sin resistencia, dependiendo de la energía de la oxidación ineficiente del material orgánico..., como esto -añadió señalando con un gesto de reprobación los restos del bocadillo de Donovan- Pasan periódicamente a un estado de coma, y la menor variación de temperatura, presión atmosférica, la humedad o la intensidad de radiación afecta vuestra eficiencia. Son alterables.
Yo, por el contrario, soy un producto acabado. Absorbo energía eléctrica directamente y la utilizo con casi un cien por ciento de eficiencia. Estoy compuesto de fuerte metal, estoy consciente constantemente y pero soportar fácilmente los extremos cambios ambientales. Estos son hechos que, partiendo de la irrefutable proposición que ningún ser puede crear un ser más perfecto que él, reduce vuestra tonta teoría a la nada. "
― Isaac Asimov , I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)