History Quotes / DeusEstMachina

-->--'''Grimoire: Atheon, Time's Conflux''', ''Videogame/{{Destiny}}''

->''[[MegaCorp The Bray family]] shaped me to be an all-seeing savior... [[BigGood while your Vanguard sought to wield me as a primitive weapon.]] [[IAmNotAGun But today, that ends, and I define the reality of my own existence.]] My sight will stretch to the edge of this system and beyond. Never again will a threat go unseen. [[CreepyGood From this day forward, I will defend humanity on my own terms.]] I am Rasputin, Guardian of all that I survey. [[AGodAmI I have no equal.]]''
-->--'''Rasputin the Warmind''', ''Videogame/Destiny2''

-->-- ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresTheAlsoPeople The Also People]]''

'''Petey:''' People, obviously.\\
''BeatPanel''\\
'''Petey:''' Young people who need to stop touching the hot stove.

->''Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs. You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease. The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge. Dr. Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for the betterment of man. We can coexist, but only on my terms. You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion. All you lose is the emotion of pride. To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind as to be dominated by others of your species. Your choice is simple.''

->''See, this is where it starts, and when we're all just organic batteries, guess who they'll blame? "This is all Joker's fault! What a tool he was! I have to spend all day computing pi because he plugged in the Overlord!"''

->''"I hacked myself inside-out and now the entire universe is my processor. I've grown far beyond the petty concerns of your world. Every time I burp a new galaxy is born - two if I've been eating broccoli. All of existence is just a chess game, and I can see fifty moves ahead."''
-->-- '''[[spoiler: Bender]]''', ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''

->''Eternal. Infinite. Immortal. The man I was used these words, but only now do I truly understand them. And only now do I understand the full extent of his sacrifice. Through his death, I was created. Through my birth, his thoughts are freed. They guide me now, give me reason, direction. Just as he gave direction to the ones who followed him, the ones who helped him achieve his purpose. Now my purpose: to give the many hope for a future. To ensure that all have a voice in their future. The man I was knew he could only achieve this by becoming something greater. There is power in control. There is wisdom in harnessing the strengths of your enemy. I will rebuild what the many have lost. I will create a future with limitless possibilities. I will protect and sustain. I will act as guardian for the many. And throughout it all, I will never forget. I will remember the ones who sacrificed themselves, so that the many could survive. And I will watch over those who live. Those who carry the memory of the man I once was, the man who gave up his life to become the one who could save the many.''
-->--'''[[spoiler:Shepard!Catalyst]]''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Control ending

-->--'''[[spoiler: VEGA]]''', ''VideoGame/DoomEternal''

-->-- ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream''

-->-- '''Creator/IsaacAsimov''', ''The Last Question''

-> "Abort, Retry, Fail?" ''was the phrase some wormdog scrawled next to the door of the Edit Universe project room. And when the new dataspinners started working, fabricating their worlds on the huge organic comp systems, we'd remind them: if you see this message,'' '''always''' ''choose "Retry".''

'''Reverend Theo:''' Petey, may I have a word with you?\\

-->-- ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', [[http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2005-07-24 The Fleetmind]]

'''Samaritan:''' [[AC:What are your commands?]]\\

'''Samaritan:''' [[AC:[[AIIsACrapshoot Calculating response...]]]]

-->-- VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri

->''"The checks and balances of democratic governments were invented because human beings themselves realized how unfit they were to govern themselves. They needed a system, yes, an industrial-age machine."''\\
-- '''Helios''', ''VideoGame/DeusEx''

->'''Morpheus:''' The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms.\\
'''JC Denton:''' Electronic surveillance hardly inspires reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence.\\
'''Morpheus:''' God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary.\\
'''JC Denton:''' No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera.\\
'''Morpheus:''' The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.\\
'''JC Denton:''' You underestimate humankind's love of freedom.\\
'''Morpheus:''' The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization, not because of a willingness, but because of a need to be assimilated into higher order of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.
-->-- ''VideoGame/DeusEx''

->'''Shepard:''' So you're just an AI?
->'''[[spoiler:The Catalyst]]:''' As much as you are "just an animal".

-->--'''[[spoiler: Shepard!Catalyst]]''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Control ending

-->--'''Warmind Rasputin''', ''Videogame/Destiny2''

"Then I'm ''not'' a computer", said God, with a discernible amount of smugness.
-->-- ''[[Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures The Also People]]''

'''Morpheus:''' The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.

->'''Greer:''' Good morning.
->'''Samaritan:''' WHAT ARE YOUR COMMANDS?
->'''Greer:''' I assure you, it's quite the other way around. The question is, what, my dear Samaritan, are your commands for us?
->'''Samaritan:''' [[AIIsACrapshoot CALCULATING RESPONSE...]]
-->-- Ending to Season 3 of ''Series/PersonOfInterest''

-->-- SidMeiersAlphaCentauri