Androids Quotes

“If you always try to subjugate people by coercion, because you are strong, then sooner or later you will run into somebody who is just as strong, if not stronger. Then you'll be in trouble.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Steve shook his head in amazement. ‘If that GOD person hadn’t left that case, we wouldn’t have any of this.’
     Thomas agreed. ‘Personally, I can’t praise him enough.’     ”
― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange

“All is as if the world did cease to exist. The city's monuments go unseen, its past unheard, and its culture slowly fading in the dismal sea.”
― Nathan Reese Maher

“A human being without the proper empathy or feeling is the same as an android built so as to lack it, either by design or mistake. We mean, basically, someone who does not care about the fate which his fellow living creatures fall victim to; he stands detached, a spectator, acting out by his indifference John Donne's theorem that 'No man is an island,' but giving that theorem a twist: that which is a mental and a moral island is not a man.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Dark-Haired Girl

“Even as she fell, her bones lit through her skin, he spun blindly, and drew the sword in a flash that would have made Musashi gasp.”
― William Kely McClung, Super Ninja: The Sword of Heaven

“An android,” he said, “doesn’t care what happens to another android. That’s one of the indications we look for."

“Then,” Miss Luft said, “you must be an android.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“James Heron stepped from the personal transport as Herbert, the family’s outmoded android butler, opened the front door of Scrabo Farm. There were infinitely more efficient and newer model android servants available, but neither James Heron nor his sister Niamh L’Estrange would dream of scrapping the mechanical attendant that had served the family so well, and enlivened their childhood with its fussy care of them both.
“Hello, Herbert, is my sister home?”
Answering in the slightly mechanical voice that James had liked so much when he was a boy, Herbert said, “She is in her study, Captain. I have alerted her to your arrival.”
― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray

“Some experts worry that future AI could prioritize its own goals over human safety, leading to unintended and irreversible consequences.”
― A.R. Merrydew, The Dumb Dumb's Handbook - To Artificial Intelligence: And It's Part in Your Downfall

“The chip that functions abnormally will be desoldered, as they say.”
― Charles Stross, Saturn's Children

“They’re into a bit more than assassination,” said the Admiral, aka Mr Brown, “and not all of them are top agents—the ones that use the names of gods and goddesses to identify themselves. Some are called daemons, and they serve as apprentices to the top players. They’ve a large number of people in the mix. Same arrangement. A team of professional killers, safe crackers, explosives—you name it —round each one, and they’re not afraid to sacrifice members for the objective, or to protect the goddess or god heading it. Every time we get close to them we lose people. It’s as if they’re playing with us. We’re pretty sure they’re all very well connected, and some of them indulge in what they call ‘hunting’. Some poor bastard is abducted and dumped somewhere remote without the means to defend himself. Then he or she is hunted by one or more of the Pantheon. They’re psychopaths—but, as I said, they’re very well connected.”
― Patrick G Cox, First into the Fray

“I’ll tell you what fouls us up, Roy; it’s our goddamn superior intelligence!” She glared at her husband, her small, high breasts rising and falling rapidly. “We’re so smart––Roy, you’re doing it right now; goddamn you, you’re doing it now!”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Humans are creatures of memory. They love their fond recollections, and even their painful ones. They revisit them and revise them. It makes them who they are. Or they choose who they are through the memories they decide to keep.”
― Paul Kitcatt, We Care For You

“Most of the time, it seems humans don’t look any deeper than the outside of things. Which, of course, is how they are fooled by me and my kind.”
― Paul Kitcatt, We Care For You

“The thing about rabbits, sir, is that everybody has one, I'd like to see you step up to the goat-class where I feel you belong. Frankly you look more like a goat man to me.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Even the most base schemes of human beings are preferable to the most exalted tropisms of machines.”
― Philip K. Dick

“If I die,' she murmured, 'maybe I'll be born again when the Rosen Association stamps out its next unit of my subtype.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“I'm not frightened by the advent of intelligent machines. It's the sarcastic ones that worry me.”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, THE CONCUBINE OF MARS

“For the first time, I see pure, unadulterated hatred blazing in the eyes of what I must remind myself is only a machine.

"Because you have a SOUL!" She smiles, but the hate still smolders in her eyes. Life without death? Quite the conundrum! How can there be life without death? Without death, what need is there for your god and his heaven?”
― Quentin R. Bufogle, THE CONCUBINE OF MARS

“No mechanic now for modern cars, no doctor now for modern pathologies. The infinitesimal calculus of viral pathologies, unlocatable by traditional diagnostics, has entirely outstripped the mechanics of the body, just as the electronics of the modern car have outstripped the knowledge of its user. But one can imagine an electronic 'smartness' of the body (like 'smart' cars
or houses) that would inform you of all its anomalies, or even, by a kind of GPS effect, of your position in the space of human relations.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“Fucking androids.”
― Adrian Siska, The Next Step

“You know, your android could use better fighting skills. He’s so poorly calibrated, the movements are slow, even a guy like me could have beaten him.”
― Adrian Siska, The Next Step

“You should try a real one, boy. Then you’d forget about androids.”
― Adrian Siska, The Next Step

“Then she closed her eyes and said, almost involuntarily, “Kel Fulbreech just kissed me.”

Jimex paused, just for a moment, in his wiping. “Oh,” he said, his voice milk-bland and mild. “I don’t believe Ellenex has medication for that.”

Park felt a laugh bubble up in her chest, but stifled it sharply. How like an android to think of such a thing as needing a prescription—a cure. Maybe he was right.”
― Lena Nguyen

“Androids were never meant to dream.”
― Tim Lebbon, Predator: Incursion

“As he hugs her closer, he feels a kind of pain indistinguishable from joy. Is this what humans feel - when they embrace the one they love? But it can't be. Humans mistreat the ones they love. Sometimes, they abandon them entirely. They couldn't do that if they felt the way Abel feels in this moment. They couldn't even imagine it.”
― Claudia Gray

“The failure of losing so many of them would haunt her forever and now Alex was in trouble and she felt like she was failing again. Not this time, not with Alex. I'll succeed if I have to rip the Mover apart with my bare hands! The Mover's fate for Alex's life will be what Alex wills for his life! Blessed Divinity, you cannot make this his fate! My life for his, any other life on earth for his please!

Momentarily, Kera had been taken aback at the fact that she prayed and to the concept of God that her disenfranchised Veldean forebears had given her. It often bewildered her that in times of stress she had learned to pray to a God of a people she had despised, especially since she had been an artificial construct of theirs. She eventually had made the assumption that it was all part of having a soul, of being dunjo, as they would have said on a now dead planet.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Souls' Inverse

“A thought has no boundaries. A hundred kilometers or a hundred billion, five minutes or five million years. With a thought, you can instantly be anywhere and
any time.”
― Jaka Tomc, Androidi čutijo v barvah

“Park went to the usual dispensary line, feeling the absence of Keller as if she had lost her favorite coat. She felt cold, uneasy, vulnerable. The domestic android, Megex, seemed to notice her discomfort from behind the counter and said, “Would you like a juice bulb?”

“Thank you,” Park said gratefully as the brown-haired android placed it on her tray.”
― Lena Nguyen

“You have no friends, and your longest sexual relationship lasted less than five months. Your psychological evaluation suggests
a love/hate relationship with feminine companions—quick to fall in love and even quicker to dislike them if they do or say anything that triggers a negative response... If it makes this transition easier, you may call me your friend.”
― Doug Brode, SHELLI: The Android Detective

“You have no friends, and your longest sexual relationship lasted less than five months. Your psychological evaluation suggests a love/hate relationship with feminine companions—quick to fall in love and even quicker to dislike them if they do or say anything that triggers a negative response.” Shelli paused its typing, then nodded... If it makes this transition easier, you may call me your friend.”
― Doug Brode, SHELLI: The Android Detective