Cynthia Breazeal famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I do think, in time, people will have, sort of, relationships with certain kinds of robots - not every robot, but certain kinds of robots - where they might feel that it is a sort of friendship, but it's going to be of a robot-human kind.
-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Thinking #People #Robots
I was raised on technology. I grew up in Livermore, California, a town of physicists and cowboys. My parents worked at the government laboratories there. So technology was very normal for me.
-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Technology #Cowboy #California
My most memorable science fiction experience was Star Wars and seeing R2D2 and C3PO. I fell in love with those robots.
-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Stars #War #Memorable
Kids love robots. They're this fanciful, cool thing.
-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Kids #Robots #Kids Love
Robots touch something deeply human within us. Â For me, robots are all about people.
-- Cynthia Breazeal

#People #Robots #Humans
In a lot of Western science fiction, you need some form of conflict, whether it's aliens or robots. I think in Western culture, being more suspicious of science, and hubris, you'll see a lot of fear of creating something that goes out of control.
-- Cynthia Breazeal

#Thinking #Creating #Western Culture

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
The Sicilian Defence was our attempt at quickly fulfilling our contractual obligation after I Robot, Pyramid and Eve had been delivered. The album was rejected by Arista, not surprisingly, and we then renegotiated our deal for the future and the next album, The Turn of a Friendly Card. The Sicilian Defence album was never released and never will be, if I have anything to do with it. I have not heard it since it was finished. I hope the tapes no longer exist.
People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.
The RÃ©gime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.
And once an intelligent robot exists, it is only a small step to a robot species - to an intelligent robot that can make evolved copies of itself.
Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops,

Cynthia Breazeal famous quotes

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