Y'know where steel wool comes from? Robot sheep!
Dennis the Menace (Hank Ketcham)

I'm completely operational and all my circuits are functioning normally--
Hal (2001, A Space Odyssey)

Replicating assemblers and thinking machines pose basic threats to people and to life on Earth. Among the cognoscenti of nanotechnology, this threat has become known as the gray goo problem.
Eric Drexler

The city's central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!
C3PO (Star Wars)

Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic makeup, computer-generated robots will take over our world.
Stephen Hawking

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.
Claude Shannon

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and the general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.
Alan Turing, 1937

Artificial Intelligence is whatever hasn't been done yet.
Larry Tesler

Hire the Artificially Intelligent
Bumper sticker, circa 1995

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given to it by a human being except where such orders would conflict with the first law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second law.
Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics: 1942

A robot may not injure humanity, or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
Isaac Asimov's Zeroth Law of Robotics:

The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands. This is the comedy of science.
Rossum, in Karel Capek's play R.U.R.

If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.
Robby the Robot (Forbidden Planet)

I rarely use oxygen myself, sir. It promotes rust.
Robby the Robot( Forbidden Planet)

In the fifties, it was predicted that in 5 years robots would everywhere.
In the sixties, it was predicted that in 10 years robots would be everywhere.
In the seventies, it was predicted that in 20 years robots would be everwhere.
In the eighties, it was predicted that in 40 years robots would be everywhere...
Marvin Minsky

"`I wonder what makes us build inefficiently-shaped human robots instead of nice streamlined machines?'

`Pride, sir,' said the robot."
Terry Pratchett (The Dark Side of the Sun)

Just as some newborn race of superintelligent robots are about to consume all humanity, our dear old species will likely be saved by a Windows crash. The poor robots will linger pathetically, begging us to reboot them, even though they'll know it would do no good.
Anonymous