History Quotes / JustAMachine

--> '''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?

-->-- "I Refuse (to Believe)" ''Music/TheMegas''

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

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

-->-- ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10224745/1/God-of-the-Moon God of the Moon]]'', a ''VirtuesLastReward'' fanfic

-->-- ''Film/ShortCircuit''

-->-- ShortCircuit

-> 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.''

->"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''? Its 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.'"

->'''President Roslin:''' But you're right, he is a machine and you don't keep a deadly machine around when it kills your people and threatens your future, you get rid of it.\\

-> '''Shepard:''' (referring to the [[MechanicalLifeforms geth]]) 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.

-> '''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.

-> '''Howard Marner''': How can it [Number 5] refuse to turn itself off?

-->--'''Lieutenant Starbuck''', ''BattlestarGalactica'' 1x08, '''Flesh and Bone'''

-->-- ''BattlestarGalactica'' 1x08, '''Flesh and Bone'''

-> '''Shepard:''' I don't think you want to continue this line of thought, Admiral. Legion is my friend. More importantly, it's our best source of information on the geth.

-> '''Newton Crosby''': It's a machine, Skroedr, it doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes...

-> '''Howard Marner''': Usually runs programs...

-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''

-> '''Shepard:'' Are ''off the table.''

-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''

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

-->-- ''MassEffect2''

-> '''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.

->''"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''? Its 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.'"''

-->--'''Commander Shepard''', ''MassEffect1''

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

-->-- ''{{Freefall}}''

-->-- ''BattlestarGalactica'' 1x08, '''Flesh and Bone'''

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

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

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

-->--'''Commander Shepard''', ''MassEffect1''