What Is This Thing You Call Love?/Quotes

"Shepard: That doesn't explain why you used a piece of my armor to fix yourself. Legion: ... There was a hole. Shepard: But why didn't you fix it sooner, or with something else? Legion: ... No data available."

- Mass Effect 2

"Yes. We say inyon lama-quanon: to make another person one's prized property or subservient. But I like your barbaric term, “love”. It's concise, powerful, like a killing blow."

- Malwrack

"This concept of "wuv" confuses and infuriates us!"

- Lrrr, Futurama

"What is love? Baby don't hurt me don't hurt me no more..."

- Haddaway, What Is Love

"Ulquiorra: You damn humans speak so easily of the heart . . . what is this "heart?" If I tear open your chest, will I see it inside? If I shatter your skull, will I see it there?"

- Bleach

"Azula: The thing I don't understand is why. Why would you do it? You know the consequences."

- Avatar: The Last Airbender

"C C E"

- Homestuck

"Mikhail: Aren't families and strangers the same thing? Where is the line between those you love and those you don't? Kiri: To begin with...you love them?"

- Wild Rose

""I tell you, that's impossible! It just can't happen! Eva-san's automatons are robots with their anima magically ensouled! Did you hear me just then?! "Ensouled!" How unscientific is that?! Of all things - love!! Love, the one emotion that defies all rational thought and explanation!! Am I to become a philosopher, then? Am I to unravel one of the greatest mysteries of the human condition?! For an artificial intelligence to even experience such a thing - to fall into the realm of the subjective rather than the objective - that can lead only to one, inevitable conclusion - that Chachamaru has become self-aware! When one can monitor one's internal thought patterns with an 'inner eye' - that is self-awareness! We're talking meta-consciousness here! There's no scientific rationale for that!! Chachamaru was never intended to develop such a thing.. then again - then again - when it comes to emotions, who can say what is or isn't rational?! To be human is to have emotions, and to have emotions is to have love. And, once there's love, hey, why not throw reproductive endocrinology into the mix! I mean, why not, right?! And reproduction means death - which is all well and good if we're talking about replicants, but we're not - we're talking about robots! Robots don't have emotion - they just can't. Or could it be that - maybe, just maybe! - it's only the ghost of an emotion, generated by her auto-learning program...? Still - even so - from a strictly methodological standpoint - it's all too bloody subjective for a scientist to wrap her mind around, don't you think? Science is absolute!! It's... ohmigawd, what am I saying, it sounds like I've given up! This isn't good - it's not good, I tell you! - Since when has the lack of an easy answer been an excuse to... For what did I sell my soul to science if not to answer those very same hard questions?! Was it the magic based power system that Eva-san gave me which caused an unforeseen side-effect on her systems?! No. No! I can't accept that. That's just another easy answer - that's what that is!! Then again, there is that brother-sister team at M.I.T. that supposedly engineered an artificial intelligence capable of independent emotion, so maybe...""

- Hakase, Mahou Sensei Negima

"T.E.C.: "Happiness? Fun? I have definitions for these words, but... My programming is insufficient. I am a perfect computer, there should be nothing I cannot comprehend." Peach: "'Comprehend' love? Love's not something you comprehend. It's something you feel." T.E.C.: ".........Princess Peach, will you teach me to feel this thing you call 'love?'""

- Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door