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Why build robots]
Rodney Brooks:
I think there's some deeper-seated thing which crosses the sex boundary of understanding life by building something that is lifelike.
Rodney Brooks:
If you analyze it too much, life becomes almost meaningless.
[
On pointing the four legs of a chair in a lion's face]
Dave Hoover:
His mind now has been completely distracted from his original thought: "Eat the man in the white pants."
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On training lions]
Dave Hoover:
That's the bottom line. If you're not scared of them, you're in big trouble.
[
On creating topiary]
George Mendonca:
This is all done from memory. If you know what a animal looks like, you just, well, you just start making an animal.
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