Let's start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics.... We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inact...ion, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever the weather licks the pilot instead of him lickin' the weather, he's finished. The first time makes the second time easie...r. And the first thing he knows, he's in trouble when the weather is perfect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With two sons born eighteen months apart, I operated mainly on automatic pilot through the ceaseless activity of their early child...hood. I remember opening the refrigerator late one night and finding a roll of aluminum foil next to a pair of small red tennies. Certain that I was responsible for the refrigerated shoes, I quickly closed the door and ran upstairs to make sure I had put the babies in their cribs instead of the linen closet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man may build a complicated piece of mechanism, or pilot a steamboat, but not more than five out of ten know how the apple got i...nto the dumpling.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... what a family is without a steward, a ship without a pilot, a flock without a shepherd, a body without a head, the same, I thi...nk, is a kingdom without the health and safety of a good monarch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide: nor can we express a deeper sense than when we ...say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Above all, however, the machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of proba...bility. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The obvious parallels between Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz have frequently been noted: in both there is the orphan hero who is r...aised on a farm by an aunt and uncle and yearns to escape to adventure. Obi-wan Kenobi resembles the Wizard; the loyal, plucky little robot R2D2 is Toto; C3PO is the Tin Man; and Chewbacca is the Cowardly Lion. Darth Vader replaces the Wicked Witch: this is a patriarchy rather than a matriarchy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it i...s beset.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »