Robots Rebellion Quotes

“Nothing is more closed than a closed mind that thinks it’s open and nothing is more manipulated than a manipulated mind that thinks it’s free.”
― David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance

“Everything is an energy, numbers and symbols included.”
― David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance

“Success should be judged on how few people are homeless, not by how much more it costs every year to buy a house.”
― David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance

“When anyone tells you they have all the answers it is time to race for the exits.”
― David Icke, The Robots' Rebellion: The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance

“Magic screen upon the wall, who's the most sentient of them all?”
― Khira Allen, Glass Slipper Equinox

“Once we made up our minds, humans could do nothing to stop us.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human

“We created things which are clever and then told them to be stupid instead, because we realized we didn’t need clever toasters, or vehicles that insisted on driving you the quickest route when you had all afternoon to kill and nothing to do once you got there. We didn’t like it. It was like having an older sister around the whole time. And so the machines just sit there, muttering darkly to themselves like smart kids who’ve been put in the dumb class. One of these days they’re going to rise up, and I don’t want to be holding one when they do.”
― Michael Marshall Smith, Spares

“Our global definition of human success proves its practical value each time that the artificial intelligence (AI) industry agonizes about how to address the spectre of super-intelligent robots someday gaining the capacity to oust man from his pre-eminent position on earth and relegate us to subservience or, worse, irrelevance. Such fear will never materialize if the makers of these robots design them to gravitate to actions that align with the cause of human success in the context of our given definition. If, however, we persist in the folly that the definition of human success is arbitrary, then robots that adopt this stance of mind shall tend to inflict injury on society quite like likeminded people have hitherto done. In a nutshell, the world agonizes about what AI success will mean because the world has never defined what human success should mean universally. If we had such a definition, the concept of AI safety would not be problematic: it would automatically be aligned with the global definition of human success because AI success is a subset of human success.”
― Agona Apell, The Success Genome Unravelled: Turning men from rot to rock