Rank Aficionado Gifts

Sergeant Stripes

Robots search for people's personal information in the cloud.

"Yes. I said 2 by 2, but you needed to use 2 by 4s for the Ark...begin again."

"There's smart phones and smart cars, so why can't there be smart rooms that clean themselves?"

"Meet the author"

'First you forget logarithms. Then you forget how to do long division. Then the multiplication table begins to go...'

"He's taught himself work-life balance."

Other girl's luxuries are my necessities.

"I need a deeper access to his brain. Only google has the records."

"I think I've figured out why we can't find the marina."

'...and in 1/100000 of a second, it can compound the programmer's error 87,500 times.'

"For heaven's sake, Ogden, it's vacation time! Must you make your little lists even on vacation time?"

"If you're smart enough to design a robot to do your homework, then you're certainly smart enough to just do your homework."

"Hey, remember a few days ago, when all this was unacceptable?"

"Listen to this: 'Technology reduces the time we spend on a given task, but increases the number of tasks we're expected to do.' Sounds like a no-win situation to me!"

"I fear one day our jobs will be taken over by technology."

Brian's canine Tread-o-Sod saved him the trouble of cleaning up after Mitzi.

"Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

Driverless cars rage.

"It's the Environment's Agency's new H.Q."

"But if you change your system preferences to match mine, is it really love?"

"What did you download at school today?"

'Yes, it computed the answer in a bilionth of a second and printed it instantly, but until I find my glasses...'

"Ralph's smart car not only drives better than he does, it also works better. So we fired him and hired the car."

"We have a potentially serious problem accruing on the poop deck."

"He's the best our AI recruitment algorithm could fund, unfortunately our AI is really stupid."

'Ugh! Another oil puddle in the living room – bad robot dog!'

Bot Art: After da Vinci

"The robots have become self-aware and self-loathing. Now all they do is write novels."

"Of course I failed you — your essay was original and unique and obviously written by a human."

"Your feelings may be artificial, but that doesn't mean they're not real."

"I'm afraid I'll be replaced by a robot at work."

'Upgrades? Yes, we've programmed it to excrete a few drops of water if it should lose a chess match. You know - tears.'

"When you say you're behind me 100%, do you mean base ten or binary?"

"Has anyone else noticed that the efficiency experts seem a little robotic?"