of Automaton
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. Anaïs Nin
To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. Ma Jian
The Trojan War was directed by hallucinations. And the soldiers who were so directed were not at all like us. They were noble automatons who knew not what they did. Julian Jaynes
Beckendorf, whose legs were now working fine (nothing like being chased by a huge monster to get your body back in order) shook his head and gasped for breath. "You shouldn't have turned it on! It's unstable! After a few years, automatons go wild! Rick Riordan
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
Truly smart technologies will remind us that we are not mere automatons who assist big data in asking and answering questions. Evgeny Morozov