Just a Machine/Quotes

"I was right! You're nothing more than some mad machine! You're just a machine!"

—Mitsuko Komiyoji, Kikaider

"We're a long way from home. What if you don't transfer all the way back? What if you die here, you really die? Its your chance to found out if you're God, or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut. (...) Someone has programmed you with a fairytale about God and streams and happily ever after, but somewhere inside that hard drive you call a brain, is a beeping message. 'Error! Error! Does not compute. I don't have a soul. I have software.'"

—Lieutenant Starbuck, Battlestar Galactica 1x08, Flesh and Bone

President Roslin: But you're right, he is a machine and you don't keep a deadly machine around when it kills your people and threatens your future, you get rid of it.
Lieutenant Starbuck: He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God.

—Battlestar Galactica 1x08, Flesh and Bone

Mr. Kornada: Did an A.I. come in here? Where is it?
Secretary: She is in the lab, being tested. And her name is Florence Ambrose.
Mr. Kornada: It is a product, not a person. It doesn't have a name.
Secretary: (thinking) When they bring doughnuts, they have names.

—Freefall

"You're not even alive. Not really. You're just a machine and machines can be broken!"

—Commander Shepard, Mass Effect 1

Shepard: (referring to the geth) You support experiments on living creatures?
Admiral Xen: Rael should have felt no more guilt experimenting on geth than I did while performing surgery on a childhood toy.
Tali: The fact that you performed surgery on your childhood toys explains a great deal, Admiral.
Admiral Xen: A ship travels faster than I can. With the right programming it can choose locations, even defend itself when attacked, but it is just a machine. It was built for the sole purpose of serving its master and it can be dismantled whenever its master desires.

—Mass Effect 2

Shepard: Legion helped us in the fight against the Collectors.
Xen: So did your pistol. Should I worry about its feelings as well?
(Paragon Interrupt)
Shepard: I don't think you want to continue this line of thought, Admiral. Legion is my friend. More importantly, it's our best source of information on the geth.
Xen: The scientific benefits -
Shepard: Are off the table.

—Mass Effect 3

Howard Marner: How can it [Number 5] refuse to turn itself off?
Skroder: Maybe it's pissed off.
Newton Crosby: It's a machine, Skroder, it doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes...
Newton Crosby, Ben Jabytua (In unison): IT JUST RUNS PROGRAMS!
Howard Marner: Usually runs programs...

—Short Circuit

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