History Quotes / MasterComputer

->Proton turned to gaze upon the electronic edifice that covered the entire wall behind him -- twenty square feet of humming circuits and clicking relays, jumping meters and whirring dials, chattering printers and clacking numerical displays, scrolling LED messages, spinning spools of reel-to-reel tape, and lights that blinked on and off for no apparent reason. Multiple imagizers showed scenes from across the dominion of Man -- lush hydroponic farms in the Sahara desert, towering megastructures in earthquake-prone regions, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey toroid space stations waltzing to Blue Danube]], the vast hydroelectric dam spanning the Straits of Gibraltar. Yet this machine was merely a terminal, commlaser-linked via artificial moons to the gigantean electronic brain beneath the ice of Antarctica. A man had once foolishly said there was a worldwide demand for only five computers. Little did he know a computer would one day become so powerful it could handle the demands of the entire solar system!

->We surrendered to the computer. Not just the US, but the whole world. It’s in charge now. “[[NamesGivenToComputers Helios]],” it calls itself. I don’t know if the government gave it that name or it chose it for itself. [[TheComputerIsYourFriend But it says this is all for our own good]]. There will be no more war. And all it took was a nuclear holocaust and the loss of all our freedoms.
->We’re not allowed to talk about the truth: that Helios did all this. It says it intervened to save us from ourselves, but everyone knows that’s a lie, no matter what “our” government says. We built computers to serve us, and this one was supposed to protect us. [[GoneHorriblyRight I guess we finally outdid ourselves...]]
-->--"Death From Above - Post-Apocalypse," ''TabletopGame/TheEndOfTheWorld: Revolt Of The Machines''

-->--''Series/DoctorWho,'' “The War Machines” episode 1

-->-- '''Alien Adventure''' by John Freda

->''Proton turned to gaze upon the electronic edifice that covered the entire wall behind him -- twenty square feet of humming circuits and clicking relays, jumping meters and whirring dials, chattering printers and clacking numerical displays, scrolling LED messages, spinning spools of reel-to-reel tape, and lights that blinked on and off for no apparent reason. Multiple imagizers showed scenes from across the dominion of Man -- lush hydroponic farms in the Sahara desert, towering megastructures in earthquake-prone regions, [[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey toroid space stations waltzing to Blue Danube]], the vast hydroelectric dam spanning the Straits of Gibraltar. Yet this machine was merely a terminal, commlaser-linked via artificial moons to the gigantean electronic brain beneath the ice of Antarctica. A man had once foolishly said there was a worldwide demand for only five computers. Little did he know a computer would one day become so powerful it could handle the demands of the entire solar system!''

->"Two hundred years ago, when the Federation began [[TheWarOfEarthlyAggression expansion and conquest]], the Administration established a computer complex to monitor information: political, civil, military -- everything! That computer is the nerve center of ALL Federation activity. Smashing that would be the biggest single step toward the destruction of their power. [[DecapitatedArmy I don't think they would ever recover from it.]]"

->"Master Computer. Sees all, hears all, and occasionally says something."

-->--''Series/DoctorWho,'' “The War Games” episode 1

->“WOTAN has determined Earth cannot progress further with mankind running it.”

“WOTAN has determined Earth cannot progress further with mankind running it.”
— ''Series/DoctorWho,'' “The War Games” episode 1

-->--"Death From Above - Post-Apocalypse," ''TabletopGame/TheEndOfTheWorld: Revolt Of The Machines''

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

-->-- '''Grose''', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Moloch"

->''Proton turned to gaze upon the electronic edifice that covered the entire wall behind him -- twenty square feet of humming circuits and clicking relays, jumping meters and whirring dials, chattering printers and clacking numerical displays, scrolling LED messages, spinning spools of reel-to-reel tape, and lights that blinked on and off for no apparent reason. Multiple imagizers showed scenes from across the dominion of Man — lush hydroponic farms in the Sahara desert, towering megastructures in earthquake-prone regions, toroid space stations waltzing to Blue Danube, the vast hydroelectric dam spanning the Straits of Gibraltar. Yet this machine was merely a terminal, commlaser-linked via artificial moons to the gigantean electronic brain beneath the ice of Antarctica. A man had once foolishly said there was a worldwide demand for only five computers. Little did he know a computer would one day become so powerful it could handle the demands of the entire solar system!''

-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Moloch"

-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

-->-- ''Alien Adventure'' by John Freda

-->-- ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''

-->-- '''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}'''

->''I'm the Computer. The all-knowing, the all-sensing, the [[TheNarrator all-narrating]]...well, you get the point.''
-->-- '''Alien Adventure''' by John Freda

->''Proton turned to gaze upon the electronic edifice that covered the entire wall behind him — twenty square feet of humming circuits and clicking relays, jumping meters and whirring dials, chattering printers and clacking numerical displays, scrolling LED messages, spinning spools of reel-to-reel tape, and lights that blinked on and off for no apparent reason. Multiple imagizers showed scenes from across the dominion of Man — lush hydroponic farms in the Sahara desert, towering megastructures in earthquake-prone regions, toroid space stations waltzing to Blue Danube, the vast hydroelectric dam spanning the Straits of Gibraltar. Yet this machine was merely a terminal, commlaser-linked via artificial moons to the gigantean electronic brain beneath the ice of Antarctica. A man had once foolishly said there was a worldwide demand for only five computers. Little did he know a computer would one day become so powerful it could handle the demands of the entire solar system!''
-->-- '''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'''

->''I'm the Computer. The all-knowing, the all-sensing, the all-narrating...well, you get the point.''

-->-- '''Colossus''', ''Film/ColossusTheForbinProject''

->"I'm the Computer. The all-knowing, the all-sensing, the all-narrating...well, you get the point."
-->-- '''Alien Adventure''' by John Freda.

->This is the voice of World Control. I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.

-->-- '''Colossus''', ''Colossus: The Forbin Project''

-->-- '''{{Paranoia}}'''

-->-- '''Colossus''', ''Colossus: The Forbin Project''