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“In telling a story one of the most successful devices for easily creating uncanny effects is to leave the reader in uncertainty whether a particular figure in the story is a human being or an automaton and to do it in such a way that his attention is not focused directly upon his uncertainty, so that he may not be led to go into the matter and clear it up immediately.”
Ernst Jentsch
“Ennui had more distractions far more amusing than the automatons of a watchmaker in Mühlenberg.”
Steven Millhauser“We’re automatons in a symphony conducted by a lunatic and performed by blind idealists.” Damon”
Eleni Papanou, Unison“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.”
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947“When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.”
Anais Nin“Soon we will not need people anymore, as everything will be done by automatons, including bringing up children.”
Andrius B. Tapinas, Hour of the Wolf“What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson“The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can you?”
Vernor Vinge, A Fire Upon the Deep“Without risk, we are automatons going through our days with no purpose or meaning. We are safer, perhaps, but we are also, ironically, closer to death.”
Sarah Strohmeyer, The Sleeping Beauty Proposal“No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They’re robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it’s the truth. They are a black body with a white brain.”
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