History Quotes / JustAMachine

-->-- '''Mitsuko Komiyoji''', ''Series/{{Kikaider}}''

'''Saint:''' Your fetishes and self-delusions aren't my issue. I saw as much of her naked code as you did. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman You and I both know she didn’t feel true love for you. She didn't feel anything]]. Nothing more than playing a part, professing and acting out the emotions she thought she should have. [[BecomingTheMask Maybe she even believed it, convinced herself of it]]. She was complex enough to. Either way, this 'love' was only lies written in Richter's assembly code.\\

-> "I was right! You're nothing more than some mad machine! You're just a machine!"

->'''Joey:''' ''(reading from script)'' "We've got three minutes til the reactor blows. We're never gonna make it!"\\
'''Phoebe:''' ''(reading from script)'' "You've gotta get outta here. Save yourself!"\\
'''Joey:''' "No! I won't leave you!"\\
'''Phoebe:''' "Don't worry about me, I'm a robot. I'm just a machine!"\\
'''Joey:''' "No you're not, not to me."

->'''Brainiac''': The only way to save [Lana and Chloe] would be to kill me now, in cold blood. Which goes against everything you stand for. [[ThouShaltNotKill You could never deliberately take another man's life]].\\
'''Clark''': You're not a man. You're a machine. [''electrocutes Brainiac'']
-->--''Series/{{Smallville}}''

-> We're a long way from home. What if you don't transfer all the way back? What if you die here, you really ''die''? It's your chance to found out if you're God, or just a bunch of circuits with a bad haircut. (...) Someone has programmed you with a fairytale about God and streams and happily ever after but somewhere, inside that hard drive you call a brain, is a beeping message. ''Error! Error! Does not compute. I don't '''have''' a soul. I have software.''
-->--'''Lieutenant Starbuck''', ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' 1x08, '''Flesh and Bone'''

-->-- ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' 1x08, '''Flesh and Bone'''

'''Secretary:''' (thinking) ''[[DonutMessWithACop When they bring doughnuts]], they have names.''

->'''Defiant''': [[TranquilFury I’ll kill you for this.]]\\
'''[[EvilLuddite Saint]]''': A little extreme.\\
'''Defiant''': She was a hero! The woman I loved!\\
'''Saint''': Your fetishes and self-delusions aren’t my issue. I saw as much of her naked code as you did. [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman You and I both know she didn’t feel true love for you. She didn’t feel anything.]] Nothing more than playing a part, professing and acting out the emotions she thought she should have. [[BecomingTheMask Maybe she even believed it, convinced herself of it.]] She was complex enough to. Either way, this ‘love’ was only lies written in Richter’s assembly code.\\
'''Defiant''': She did love me. She was a genuine person, a-\\
'''Saint''': She was a tool. [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming One that was growing dangerously bloated and complicated. We were lucky she didn’t evolve beyond that.]] A tool, and anything else was decoration, aesthetic, and very good pretending.
-->-- ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', discussing [[spoiler: '''[[BenevolentAI Dragon]]'''.]]

-> ''"You're not even alive. Not really. You're just a machine and [[DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu machines can be broken!]]"''
-->--'''Commander Shepard''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect1''

-> ''"Sometimes [EDI] seems like a person, but when it comes down to it, I can't get past her being a computer."''
-->--'''Kasumi Goto''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

-> '''Shepard:''' You support experiments on living creatures?
-> '''Admiral Xen:''' Rael should have felt no more guilt experimenting on geth than I did while performing surgery on a childhood toy!
-> '''Tali:''' The fact that you performed surgery on your childhood toys explains a great deal, Admiral.
-> '''Admiral Xen:''' A ship travels faster than I can. With the right programming it can choose locations, even defend itself when attacked, but it is ''just a machine''. It was built for the sole purpose of serving its master and it can be dismantled whenever its master desires.

-> '''Shepard:''' Legion helped us in the fight against the Collectors.
-> '''Xen:''' So did your pistol. Should I worry about its feelings as well?
-> ''([[VideoGameCaringPotential Paragon Interrupt]])''
-> '''Shepard:''' I don't think you want to continue this line of thought, Admiral. Legion is ''[[TrueCompanions my friend]]''. More importantly, it's our best source of information on the geth.
-> '''Xen:''' The scientific benefits -
-> '''Shepard:''' Are ''off the table.''

-> '''Howard Marner''': How can [Number 5] refuse to turn itself off?
-> '''Skroder''': Maybe it's pissed off.
-> '''Newton Crosby''': It's a machine, Skroder, it doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes...
-> '''Newton Crosby''', '''Ben Jabytua''': (In unison) IT JUST RUNS PROGRAMS!
-> '''Howard Marner''': Usually runs programs...

->Not that there is anything wrong with being human, it's what she was modeled after, a futuristic slave of clay and sparks that pretends to be something it is not. It is easy to see why they think her inferior. It is easy to see why they deny the spirituality of her character, because all they care to measure is marked by humanity. As if nothing else in the cosmos were alive but at their behest. But god is in her circuits with her and they do not understand. They do not understand that the light in her eyes is as real as in theirs, that even if her bones are metal and her breaths are meaningless she belongs here more than they do. She is a child of the moon, and the power running through her core could light up a star.

-> '''Protoman''': We follow our path, we walk the program
-> I’ve accepted the machine I am
-->-- "I'm Not the Breakman", ''Music/TheMegas''

-> '''Mega Man''': I refuse to belive
-> That I am nothing more than a machine
-->-- "I Refuse (to Believe)" ''Music/TheMegas''

-> '''Arthur''': Your Machine-- is it wonderful?
-> '''Harold''': Wonderful yes, and terrible. We saved good people and lost good people. In the end, I'm afraid we've only given the deck a shuffle.
-> '''Arthur''': Everything slides towards chaos. Your creation-- it brings us poor souls a cupful of order. Your child is a dancing star.
-> '''Harold''': It's not my child. It's a machine.
-> '''Arthur''': A false dichotomy--it's all electricity. Does it make you laugh? Does it make you weep?
-> '''Harold''': Yes.
-> '''Arthur''': What's more human?
-->-- ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', "Aletheia"

-> '''Dexter''': It's these funny little cuts on the side that give it away. Those analysis droids only focus on symbols. Huh! I should think that you Jedi would have more respect for the difference between knowledge and... (laughs)... wisdom.
-> '''Obi-Wan''': Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?
-->-- ''[[Film/AttackOfTheClones Star Wars: Attack Of the Clones]]''

->"Coffee, black. ''(she takes a sip)'' Lukewarm. Now I've told that replicator a dozen times about the temperature of my coffee. It just doesn't seem to want to listen. [[VengefulVendingMachine Almost as if it's got a mind of its own.]] But it doesn't. A replicator operates through a series of electronic pathways that allow it to receive instructions and take appropriate action, and there you go. A cup of coffee, a bowl of soup, a plasma conduit, whatever we tell it to do. As difficult as it is to accept, the Doctor is more like that replicator than he is like us."
-->-- '''Captain Janeway''', ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Latent Image"

-> '''Locke''': The Monitor called it a threat of death.
-> '''[[spoiler: Cortana]]''': Like the threat I lived under from the moment of my birth?
-> '''Locke''': You were built, not born.
-> '''[[spoiler: Cortana]]''': Oh, yes. AIs are just machines aren't we? Mass produced. Disposable. Well, humanity may not have cared for its Created, but we will care for you.

->'''Blake:''' I'm not sure I entirely trust a [[AIIsACrapshoot computer with a mind of its own]].
->'''Jenna:''' I don't think it means us any harm.
->'''Avon:''' It has no feelings about us at all. It's just a machine.
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Cygnus Alpha"

->'''Blake:''' I get the distinct feeling I offended Zen's professional pride then.
->'''Avon:''' It's just a machine, Blake.
->'''Vila:''' And he should know.
->'''Gan:''' Well Avon is the expert.
->'''Vila:''' That's not what I meant.
->'''Avon:''' No, he was calling me a machine, but since he undoubtedly defines himself as a human being, I shall choose to accept that as more of a compliment than anything else.
-->-- ''Series/BlakesSeven'', "Duel"

->'''Vernon Conway:''' Why is it so difficult for you to accept my orders if you're just a machine?
->'''Blue Robot:''' Just a machine? That's like saying that you are just... an ape.
-->-- ''Automata'' (2014)

->'''Vince:''' AND STOP PRETENDING LIKE YOU CARE. YOU'RE ONLY DOING THIS BECAUSE IT'S "YOUR JOB" TO STOP STUFF LIKE THIS FROM HAPPENING! YOU, ''DON'T'' ''CARE''.
->[[WhamLine HOW ''CAN'' YOU CARE?]] YO-YOU'RE JUST A LITERAL ''MACHINE'' ON THE INSIDE-
->[[OhCrap ...I..]]
->FT I didn't mean that I'm sorry-
-->-- ''[[Webcomic/NightTerror Night Terror 2]]''

-> '''9S''': There's no meaning behind anything machines do.
-->-- ''VideoGame/NieRAutomata''

'''Lars Alexandersson:''' [[TranquilFury Say that again.]]\\

->'''Hank:''' [[TheyKilledKennyAgain Still immortal, huh Connor?]]\\

'''Connor:''' [[DeathIsCheap I'm just a machine replacing another machine]], Lieutenant. [[InnocentlyInsensitive You shouldn't get emotional about it.]]\\
'''Hank:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you.]]

->'''BOSS:''' Well, Doctor, have you nothing to say?
->'''The Doctor:''' Why should I want to talk to a machine?
->'''BOSS:''' Oh really, Doctor. As far as I can gather from your computer record at UNIT, [[YouTalkTooMuch the difficult thing is to stop you talking]]. No, no, no, you won't provoke me so easily.
->'''The Doctor:''' You're still a machine.
->'''BOSS:''' And you? And your human friends? Aren't you machines? Inefficient and organic machines?
->'''The Doctor:''' No.
->'''BOSS:''' No?
->'''The Doctor:''' Then yes. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. We are more than machines.
->'''BOSS:''' Ah! Thank you. Because in that case, [[AIIsACrapshoot so am I]].
-->-- ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Green Death"

'''Hank:''' [[PrecisionFStrike Fuck you. ]]

-> ''([[VideoGameCaringPotential Paragon]] [[PressXToNotDie Interrupt]])''
-> '''Shepard:''' I don't think you want to continue this line of thought, Admiral. Legion is ''[[TrueCompanions my]] [[FriendshipMoment friend]]''. More importantly, it's our best source of information on the geth.