"That's me," he said, motioning to the robot. "That's all of us. We prattle about free will, but we're nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves."

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Source : Alfred Bester (1974). “Tiger! Tiger!”

Alfred Bester

#Robots Quotes #Free Will Quotes #Reactions Quotes

“Getting up in the morning and loving what you do is a dream come true.”
“They may never say it, but your parents really are proud of you when you follow your heart and chase your dreams.”
“This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.”

Source : Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Gilead: A Novel”, p.28, Macmillan
“Being on par in terms of price and quality only gets you into the game. Service wins the game.”
“Every step by which men add to their knowledge and skills is a step also by which they can control other men.”
“That dog is mine said those poor children; that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout the earth. [Fr., Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et l'image de l'usurpation de toute la terre.]”
“I bought an ideal gift for my mother-in-law - a battery-operated mouth.”
“I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.”

Source : "More Than Our Beliefs" by Rabbi Irwin Kula, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

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