History Quotes / CyberneticsEatYourSoul

-->--''Literature/AlienInASmallTown''

-->-- '''Batou's Tachikoma''', ''GhostInTheShell''

-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''Franchise/StarWars''

-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi''', ''StarWars''

->No glands, replaced by tech. No digestive system, replaced by tech. '''[[ThisIsUnforgivable No soul, replaced by tech]].'''

->''"He's more machine now than man; twisted and evil."''

->''"No glands, replaced by tech. No digestive system, replaced by tech. '''[[ThisIsUnforgivable No soul, replaced by tech]].'''"''

->''"The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden, it is not made of mud and can not dream of returning to dust."''

->''"But for analog people like you [[TheBigGuy Mr. Batou]], no matter how many digital components you add on through [[HollywoodCyborg cyberization]] or [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics]], your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent ghost]] will never diminish!"''

->''"There's no mechanical replacement for a future, Face. And every time I take a hit, and they have to cut away another part of me and replace it with machinery because I'm allergic to [[MagicAntidote bacta]], every time that happens I seem to be a little further away from that young doctor who had a future. He can't come back, Face. Not all of him is here anymore."''

->''"The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons."''

-> ''"I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine - just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness. Dark. Rigid. Cold. Alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen."''

->''"Every implant exalts you. Every line of code in your subsystems elevates you from your disgusting flesh."''

->''"Karenin-that-was-not-Karenin cackled from inside his gleaming silver caul with terrible laughter; while somewhere in the deep recesses of what once had been a human heart, there floated and glittered the memory of a woman, a woman he had loved."''

->''"Albert Einstein said technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. Took me a while, but I finally see his point. How often have we chased the dream of progress only to see it perverted? More often than not, haven't the machines that we built to improve life shattered the lives of millions? And now we want to turn that dream on ourselves, to fundamentally improve who we are. Experience has shown me how dangerous that can be. [...] Technology offers us strength. Strength enables dominance, and dominance paves the way for abuse. [[spoiler: Darrow]] understood this. He knew that using technology to become something more than we are risks losing our ability to love, aspire, or make moral choices, the very things that make us human."''

-> ''"...work at remaining human inside. I'm not sure I've managed it all that well, myself. Sometimes, I just sit and stare, forgetting for weeks, Jessamyn, for weeks. I can do almost anything with this improved body, but my mind has gotten blasé about it. When you're superhuman, so little seems worth the bother. You must resist that. You must... ."''

-> ''"Folks that chop up their healthy body to "improve" it invariably die early. No one with [[UnusualUserInterface EI]] or full-body [[SuperStrength myomer replacements]] has a nice retirement, [[PowerDegeneration if they get one at all]]."''

->''Everybody let us say goodbye to all our notions,''
->''Cause it's not enough left to say that we're humane when we're left behind,''
->''It's too late to think that we can worship human emotions,''
->''Cause we've already evolved into machines in our minds.''

->''"He is more machine than man now; twisted and evil."''

-->-- '''Dr. Mordin Solus''', on the Collectors, ''MassEffect2''

->''"No minds, replaced by tech. No digestive system, replaced by tech. '''[[ThisIsUnforgivable No souls, replaced by tech]].'''"''

-->-- '''Dr. Simon Threadneedle''', ''Krokodil Tears''

-->--'''Adam Jensen,''' ''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution]]'' [[spoiler: Darrow/Anti-Augmentation Ending]]

-->-- '''Obi-Wan Kenobi on Darth Vader, ''StarWars''

-->-- ''Android Karenina''

-->--''[[VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]]'' [[spoiler: Darrow/Anti-Augmentation Ending]]

—->-- '''Commissioner Pravin Lal''', "Man and Machine", ''ibid.''

->''"No minds, replaced by tech. No digestive system, replaced by tech. No souls, replaced by tech."''

-->-- '''Donna Haraway'''

-->--''[[DeusExHumanRevolution Adam Jensen]]'' [[spoiler: Darrow/Anti-Augmentation Ending]]

->''"He is more machine than man now, twisted and evil."''

->''"The cyborg would not recognize the garden of eden, it is not made of mud and can not dream of returning to dust."''

-->-- ''AndroidKarenina''

->''"No minds, replaced by tech. No digestive system, replaced by tech. '''No souls, replaced by tech."'''''

-> The cyborg would not recognize the garden of eden, it is not made of mud and can not dream of returning to dust.

-> But for analog people like you [[TheBigGuy Mr. Batou]], no matter how many digital components you add on through [[HollywoodCyborg cyberization]] or [[ArtificialLimbs prosthetics]], your [[OurSoulsAreDifferent ghost]] will never diminish!

-> There's no mechanical replacement for a future, Face. And every time I take a hit, and they have to cut away another part of me and replace it with machinery because I'm allergic to [[MagicAntidote bacta]], every time that happens I seem to be a little further away from that young doctor who had a future. He can't come back, Face. Not all of him is here anymore.

->I think, and my thoughts cross the barrier into the synapses of the machine, just as the good doctor intended. But what I cannot shake, and what hints at things to come, is that thoughts cross back. In my dreams, the sensibility of the machine invades the periphery of my consciousness: dark, rigid, cold, alien. Evolution is at work here, but just what is evolving remains to be seen.
-->-- '''Commissioner Pravin Lal''', "Man and Machine", ''SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

->The Warrior's bland acronym, MMI, obscures the true horror of this monstrosity. Its inventors promise a new era of genius, but meanwhile unscrupulous power brokers use its forcible installation to violate the sanctity of unwilling human minds. They are creating their own private army of demons.

->Every implant exalts you. Every line of code in your subsystems elevates you from your disgusting flesh.

->Karenin-that-was-not-Karenin cackled from inside his gleaming silver caul with terrible laughter; while somewhere in the deep recesses of what once had been a human heart, there floated and glittered the memory of a woman, a woman he had loved.

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