"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
- Karel Čapek / Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum's Universal Robots)
[A Czech play - it premiered in 1921, introducing the word "robot" to the English language and science fiction as a whole.]