"About:robots" Answers
      Okay, time's up.  Here are the references in the page you get when you enter "about:robots" into the URL box in Firefox: 
- From the page title (in the top bar):
 Gort! Klaatu barada nikto!
 From original movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Spoken to the robot Gort by Patricia Neal's character, translated roughly as: "Gort! Don't destroy the Earth!" or possibly, "Stay your hand!"
 
- Robots may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
 Isaac Asimov's First Law of Robotics. Somewhat observed by Roombas, not so much by unmanned aerial killer drones.
 
- Robots have seen things you people wouldn't believe.
 From the movie Bladerunner. Spoken by the homicidal Nexus 6 robot shortly before he dies.
 
- Robots are Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With.
 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 
- Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.
 Bender, from Futurama
 
- And they have a plan. 
 The Cylons in Battlestar Galactica, of course
 
- And finally, the button "Please do not press this button again"
 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
 
 
Labels: quirky, science fiction





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