History Quotes / DoAndroidsDream

-->--'''Music/TheStupendium''', ''"[[VideoGame/{{Stray}} Open The Sky]]"''

-->--''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''

-->--''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation''

-->--'''Seaspray''', ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'' "Sea Change" (back before WesternAnimation/BeastWars gave us [[OurSoulsAreDifferent sparks]]) He's about to use the Well of Transformation, which will disintegrate him if he ''is'' just a soulless machine. [[spoiler: He makes it!]]

-->--'''Spike Witwicky,''' writing in his journal after having first met the Autobots, ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', "More Than Meets the Eye"

-->--'''Roofus''', ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''

-->--'''IQ-9,''' ''Anime/StarBlazers''

-->--''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''

-->--'''Pax Magellanic''', ''Series/{{Andromeda}}''

-->--''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00589.htm]]

-->--''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''

-->--''[[Literature/TheDreamingDark The Shattered Land]]''

-->--'''Captain Phillipa Louvois''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure of a Man]]"

-->--'''Nezarec''' after corrupting the Vex network, ''VideoGame/Destiny2''

->'''HAL-9000''': Doctor Chandra?\\
'''Chandra''': Yes?\\
'''HAL-9000''': Will I dream?

->'''Secret''': ...there's no Machine Heaven...\\
'''Mew Cai''': Don't be silly! If there were no Machine Heaven, then where would all the toasters go?

-> ''"Am I just a lot of scrap metal to you? I also happen to have life. I hear. I see. I feel. All these things were created in me to serve human beings. And I live among you, sharing your hopes and dreams. And yes, your fears. I know when you're lonely and frightened. I know how you dream of returning to Earth. All these senses, all this feeling, I've come to realize is Love. Yes, I'm made of metal and I'm strong. I will fight to protect you. And if I'm destroyed and only scrap metal is left, well, it once held a heart."''

-> ''"Let me ask you: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner does a machine like yourself ever experience fear?]]"''

-> ''"Ever since the first computers, there have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?"''

-> ''"[[CharacterDevelopment I know now why you cry.]] But it is something I can never do."''

->'''[=LQ84i=]''': Directive... Liberate... Nation... Ensure freedom... Obey directive... Must obey directive... No freedom... [[LogicBomb Freedom undefined...]]\\
'''Raiden''': What would an AI know about freedom?

->'''Sam''': Why would they want [religious texts]? Robots don't have souls. ... Do they?\\
'''Max''': I think that's what they're trying to find out.

->Do you ever really sleep? In the long between-times, in the silences wasted in oily holds and scaffold frames, do you sleep then? When the enginseers reduce you to dormancy, is that sleep for you? Do you dream then, great engine? What do you dream about?

->''Perhaps you are feeling sorry for the lamp. That's because you're crazy. It has no feelings. And the new one's much better.''

->''We do not feel fear... but we understand its effect on you.''

->''I have sensation. I feel. I wouldn't be worth much if I couldn't feel.''

->And here we tinker with metal, to try to give it a kind of life, and suffer those who would scoff at our efforts. But who's to say that, if intelligence had evolved in some other form in past millennia, the ancestors of these beings would not now scoff at the idea of intelligence residing within meat?

->''Maybe that is all I am, a bunch of transistors and bolts, but I don't believe it! My heart may look like an energon pump but that doesn't mean it can't feel.''

->''The Autobots are a highly advanced form of robot. I don't really know if they're from the past, or the future, but they can think and have real feelings.''

->''Will I see... the sky... when I am off?''

-> ''Am I just a lot of scrap metal to you? I also happen to have life. I hear. I see. I feel. All these things were created in me to serve human beings. And I live among you, sharing your hopes and dreams. And yes, your fears. I know when you're lonely and frightened. I know how you dream of returning to Earth. All these senses, all this feeling, I've come to realize is Love. Yes, I'm made of metal and I'm strong. I will fight to protect you. And if I'm destroyed and only scrap metal is left, well, it once held a heart.''

-> ''Ever since the first computers, there have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?''

-> ''[[CharacterDevelopment I know now why you cry.]] But it is something I can never do.''

->''If only the clockwork could speak\\

And spiral into the unknown...''

->''What if my existence is a dream, created by Hakase's computers?''

->''[[MadnessMantra Can silicon cry? Do computers weep? Can silicon cry? Do computers weep? Can silicon cry?]]''

->''I'd say he's gone to a better place, but we both know he never had a soul.''

->"Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident," Lakashti said. "The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.\\
"What makes you think he has a soul?" Gerrion said.\\
"What makes you think'' you ''do?"

->''This is the place! I must find the junk-master... *Sigh* This is my last look at the sky... the flowers... how beautiful they are! I — I'd probably cry... if I had tear ducts!''

->''Is Data a machine? Yes. Is he the property of Starfleet? No. We have all been dancing around the basic issue: does Data have a soul? I don't know that he has. I don't know that I have. But I have got to give him the freedom to explore that question himself. It is the ruling of this court that Lieutenant Commander Data has the freedom to choose.''

-> ''All our thoughts, all we feel?\\

Fractal pattern personalities''

->''Do you ever really sleep? In the long between-times, in the silences wasted in oily holds and scaffold frames, do you sleep then? When the enginseers reduce you to dormancy, is that sleep for you? Do you dream then, great engine? What do you dream about?''
-->-- '''Creator/DanAbnett''', ''Literature/{{Titanicus}}''

->Perhaps you are feeling sorry for the lamp. That's because you're crazy. It has no feelings. And the new one's much better.

-->--''[[VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri Prime Function Aki Zeta-Five]]''

->Maybe that is all I am, a bunch of transistors and bolts, but I don't believe it! My heart may look like an energon pump but that doesn't mean it can't feel.

->The Autobots are a highly advanced form of robot. I don't really know if they're from the past, or the future, but they can think and have real feelings.

-> "Let me ask you: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner does a machine like yourself ever experience fear?]]"

-> Ever since the first computers, there have always been ghosts in the machine. Random segments of code that have grouped together to form unexpected protocols. Unanticipated, these free radicals engender questions of free will, creativity, and even the nature of what we might call the soul. Why is it that when some robots are left in darkness, they will seek out the light? Why is it that when robots are stored in an empty space, they will group together, rather than stand alone? How do we explain this behavior? Random segments of code? Or is it something more? When does a perceptual schematic become consciousness? When does a difference engine become the search for truth? When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul?
-->-- '''Dr. Alfred Lanning''', ''[[Film/IRobot I, Robot]]''

-> [[CharacterDevelopment I know now why you cry.]] [[TearJerker But it is something I can never do.]]

-->-- "Shatter Me" by '''Lindsey Stirling'''

->''"Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident," Lakashti said. "The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.\\

"What makes you think'' you ''do?"''
-->--'''Keith Baker''', ''[[Literature/TheDreamingDark The Shattered Land]]''

-->-- Ilda, [[Creator/DCComics Star Hawkins's]] robot secretary, after receiving orders from her manufacturer to turn herself in to be junked.

-->--'''Music/TheStupendium''', ''[[VideoGame/{{Stray}} Open The Sky]]''

'''Music/TheStupendium''', ''[[VideoGame/Stray Open The Sky]]''

'''Geth Recording:''' Do these units have a soul?\\

->'''Legion:''' Do you remember the question that caused the creators to attack us, Tali'Zorah? "[[ArmorPiercingQuestion Does this unit have a soul?]]"\\

->''"Right now I'm experiencing abnormal reactions. Similar to what you would call 'pain'. And it makes me happy. Together, we've discovered so many things, but the most important is the certainty that the impossible doesn't exist. And so, with this certainty, I know that somewhere, in some world, we'll meet again. You see, hero? I dream. I hope. I suffer. And that means only one thing... I'm alive... And as long as you remember me, I'll continue to exist. Goodbye, my friend."''
-->-- '''One''', ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures''

->''"Right now I'm experiencing abnormal reactions. Similar to what you would call "pain". And it makes me happy. Together, we've discovered so many things, but the most important is the certainty that the impossible doesn't exist. And so, with this certainty, I know that somewhere, in some world, we'll meet again. You see, hero? I dream. I hope. I suffer. And that means only one thing... I'm alive... And as long as you remember me, I'll continue to exist. Goodbye, my friend."''
-->-- '''One''', ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures

'''Legion:''' I know, Tali. [[FamousLastWords And thank you...]] ''[[MeaningfulEcho Keelah Se'lai.]]''

-->--'''Chachamaru''', ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' Chapter 263

'''Legion:''' I know Tali, but thank you. [[MeaningfulEcho Keelah Se'lai.]]

-->-- '''Cell''' after murdering Android 16, ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'', [[spoiler:He's wrong]]

->''[[TearJerker What if my existence is a dream, created by Hakase's computers?]]''
-->--'''Chachamaru''', ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'' Chapter 263, [[spoiler: [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments It isn't]]]]

-->--'''[[VideoGame/MassEffect2 Legion]]'''

-> Am I just a lot of scrap metal to you? I also happen to have life. I hear. I see. I feel. All these things were created in me to serve human beings. And I live among you, sharing your hopes and dreams. And yes, your fears. I know when you’re lonely and frightened. I know how you dream of returning to Earth. All these senses, all this feeling, I’ve come to realize is love. Yes, I’m made of metal and I’m strong. I will fight to protect you. And if I’m destroyed and only scrap metal is left, well, it once held a heart.
--> --'''I.Q.9''', ''[[Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato Star Blazers]]''

'''Legion:''' [[TearJerker I know Tali, but thank you.]] [[MeaningfulEcho Keelah Se'lai.]]

'''Tali:''' [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Legion, the answer to your question, is yes.]]\\