Line #8 Quotes/MasterComputer


1	-> [[AC: Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.]]
2	-->-- ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''
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4	->''I'm the Computer. The all-knowing, the all-sensing, the [[TheNarrator all-narrating]]... well, you get the point.''
5	-->-- ''Literature/AlienAdventure'' by John Freda
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7	->''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.''
8	-->-- '''Colossus''', ''Film/ColossusTheForbinProject''
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10	->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. [[LittleDidIKnow Little did he know]] a computer would one day become so powerful it could handle the demands of the entire solar system!
11	-->-- ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''
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13	->''"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.]]"''
14	-->-- '''Blake''', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Pressure Point"
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16	->''"Master Computer. Sees all, hears all, and occasionally says something."''
17	-->-- '''Grose''', ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Moloch"
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19	->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.
20	->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...]]
21	-->--"Death From Above -- Post-Apocalypse," ''TabletopGame/TheEndOfTheWorld: Revolt of the Machines''
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23	->WOTAN has determined Earth cannot progress further with mankind running it.
24	-->--''Series/DoctorWho'', "The War Machines" Episode 1

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