Roomba Quotes & Sayings

My Roomba's name is Roswell. There is the moment when you are sitting on the couch and Roomba turns itself on and goes out and starts working. You really appreciate it because it works hard for you, and it deserves some kind of recognition. — Colin Angle

It's hard not to love Roomba. Roomba had such an amazing impact on the field. When we launched, we asked people, 'Is it a robot?' and got an overwhelming no - 'robots' have arms and legs; they command data. There was a very strong perception that robots had to look like people. — Colin Angle

Respect, admiration and trust equals love. — Hal Hartley

Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones. — Chris Hadfield

Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us. — Edgar Douglas Adrian

I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars. — Daniel Tosh

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. — Dalai Lama

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment. — Colin Angle

This is the perfect place for insight, for a person to become somebody better. — Junot Diaz

My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor. — Colin Angle

The tired sunsets and the tired
people -
it takes a lifetime to die and
no time at
all. — Charles Bukowski

I strapped an MP3 player to one of those floor-cleaning robots. Call him DJ Roomba - little guy cruises around and plays music. What's hot, DJ Roomba! — Aziz Ansari

Those of us of a certain age grew up expecting that by now we would have Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons' in our house. And all we've got is a Roomba. — Juan Enriquez

I know Roomba is a vacuum ... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends! — Shannon Woodward

Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that "those PETA people" have stood up for the values we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves. — Jonathan Safran Foer

You've got to figure out how to be happy with yourself.Figure out what moves you,what fulfills you.For the first time,Annie,you've got to put yourself first.Don't be Dave's Annie or Amelia's mom or Charlotte's daughter.Just be Annie. — Lindsay Detwiler

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest stupidity brutalizes it. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Take off the glasses too." Lucy folded her hands. "I ... " Fable hesitated. "I'm afraid I can't see without them. I'm dyslexic, if you don't mind. — Cameron Jace

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous. — Rodney Brooks

I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind. — Clive James

Don't expect to be able to upload your cat's brain into your Roomba any time soon. — Jamais Cascio

1. Someone to love 2. Something to do 3. Something to look forward to — Jama Hare

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.' — Colin Angle

It is only the oppressed who, by freeing themselves, can free their oppressors. — Paulo Freire

You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is ... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling. — Ram Dass

Impoliteness is frequently the sign of an awkward modesty that loses its head when surprised and hopes to conceal this with rudeness. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway. — Colin Angle