Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norbert Wiener

Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor.

Norbert Wiener

Let us remember that the automatic machine is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor. Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic consequences of slave labor.

Nikola Tesla

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.

Harlan Ellison

K is for Kenghis Khan. He was a very nice person. History has no record of him. There is a moral in that, somewhere.

Stewart Brand

I was a glassy-eyed undergraduate. It was a pillar of local civilization.

Will Durant

In the last analysis civilization is based upon the food supply.

Rose Macaulay

what about Christianity? Are we right in the face of so long a record of its poverty in international achievement, to keep invoking it as a standard, almost synonymous with civilization?

Winston Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

William Harvey

Civilization is only a series of victories against nature.

William E. Gladstone

To serve Armenia is to serve civilization.

William E. Gladstone

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

Wendell Berry

Specialization is the great evil of civilization.

Joe Strummer

Anybody who makes speeches written by someone else is just a robot.

Isaac Asimov

Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence.

Isaac Asimov

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