Line #93 Quotes/DoAndroidsDream


1	->''"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?"''
2	-->-- ''Literature/{{Titanicus}}''
3
4	->'''HAL-9000:''' Doctor Chandra?\
5	'''Chandra:''' Yes?\
6	'''HAL-9000:''' Will I dream?
7	-->-- ''2010''
8
9	->''"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."''
10	-->-- ''IKEA Commercial''
11
12	->''"We do not feel fear... but we understand its effect on you."''
13	-->-- '''Legion''', ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
14
15	->''"I have sensation. I feel. I wouldn't be worth much if I couldn't feel."''
16	-->-- '''Cameron''', ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles''
17
18	->''"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?"''
19	-->-- ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri''
20
21	->'''Secret:''' ...there's no Machine Heaven...\
22	'''Mew Cai:''' Don't be silly! If there were no Machine Heaven, then where would all the toasters go?
23	-->-- ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation''
24
25	->''"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."''
26	-->-- '''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!]]
27
28	->''"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."''
29	-->-- '''Spike Witwicky,''' writing in his journal after having first met the Autobots, ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'', "More Than Meets the Eye"
30
31	->''"Will I see... the sky... when I am off?"''
32	-->-- '''Roofus''', ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''
33
34	->''"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."''
35	-->-- '''IQ-9,''' ''Anime/StarBlazers''
36
37	->'''[[RidiculouslyHumanRobot Geth]] Recording:''' Mistress Hala'Dama, Unit has an inquiry.\
38	'''[[AbusivePrecursors Quarian]] Recording:''' What is it, 4-31?\
39	'''Geth Recording:''' [[WhamLine Do these units have a soul?]]\
40	'''Quarian Recording:''' ... Who taught you that word?\
41	'''Geth Recording:''' [[InstantAIJustAddWater We learned it ourselves]]. It appears 216 times in the Scroll of Ancestors.\
42	'''Quarian Recording:''' Only Quarians have souls. [[JustAMachine You are a mechanism]].\
43	'''[[RobotBuddy Legion]]:''' Recording ends.\
44	'''[[PlayerCharacter Shepard]]:''' Was that the first time a Geth asked if it had a soul?\
45	'''Legion:''' No. It was the first time a creator became frightened [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters when we asked]].
46	-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect2''
47
48	->'''Legion:''' Do you remember the question that caused the creators to attack us, Tali'Zorah? "[[ArcWords Does this unit have a soul?]]"\
49	''(Later)''\
50	'''Tali:''' Legion, the answer to your question, is yes.\
51	'''Legion:''' I know, Tali. And thank you... ''[[MeaningfulEcho Keelah Se'lai.]]''
52	-->-- ''VideoGame/MassEffect3''
53
54	->'''Voluptua:''' You ''are'' conscious, aren't you? Not just artificially ''intelligent?''\
55	'''Roofus:''' I... don't know.\
56	'''Voluptua:''' You are, then. A simple ''A.I.'' would lie about it.
57	-->-- ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''
58
59	->'''Galatea:''' Molly was born in a freak accident! And ''I'm'' a redundant copy of ''that!'' My very existence ''proves'' the randomness of ''everything!!''\
60	'''Bob:''' Wha... How can you ''say'' that? I mean, look at you! You're... so smart! And weird! And amazing! ''How'' can you say you're not here for a ''reason?'' And that reason... ''can't'' be to hurt people!... It just ''can't!''
61	-->-- ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob''
62
63	->''"Let me ask you: [[PreAssKickingOneLiner does a machine like yourself ever experience fear?]]"''
64	-->-- '''Vegeta''' to '''Android 19''', ''Anime/DragonBallZ''
65
66	->''"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?"''
67	-->-- '''Dr. Alfred Lanning''', ''Film/IRobot''
68
69	->''"[[CharacterDevelopment I know now why you cry.]] But it is something I can never do."''
70	-->-- '''T-800''', ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''
71
72	->'''Hogarth:''' I know you feel bad about the deer, but it's not your fault. Things die. That's part of life. It's bad to kill, but it's not bad to die.\
73	'''Giant:''' You die?\
74	'''Hogarth:''' Well, yes, someday.\
75	'''Giant:''' I die?\
76	'''Hogarth:''' I don't know. You're made of metal, but you have feelings, and you think about things, and that means you have a soul. And souls don't die.\
77	'''Giant:''' Soul?\
78	'''Hogarth:''' Mom says it's something inside of all good things, and that it goes on forever and ever.\
79	'''Giant:''' Souls don't die.
80	-->-- ''WesternAnimation/TheIronGiant''
81
82	->'''[=LQ84i=]:''' Directive... Liberate... Nation... Ensure freedom... Obey directive... Must obey directive... No freedom... [[LogicBomb Freedom undefined...]]\
83	'''Raiden:''' What would an AI know about freedom?
84	-->-- ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance''
85
86	->''"If only the clockwork could speak\
87	I wouldn't be so alone\
88	We'd burn every magnet and spring\
89	And spiral into the unknown..."''
90	-->-- "Shatter Me" by '''Music/LindseyStirling'''
91
92	->''"What if my existence is a dream, created by Hakase's computers?"''
93	-->--'''Chachamaru''', ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' Chapter 263
94
95	->''"[[MadnessMantra Can silicon cry? Do computers weep? Can silicon cry? Do computers weep? Can silicon cry?]]"''
96	-->-- '''Pax Magellanic''', ''Series/{{Andromeda}}''
97
98	->'''Sam:''' Why would they want [religious texts]? Robots don't have souls. ... Do they?\
99	'''Max:''' I think that's what they're trying to find out.
100	-->-- ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff600/fv00589.htm]]
101
102	->'''Sora:''' Wait, Quorra. Let me talk to [[ReforgedIntoAMinion Rinzler]]. A little heart to heart talk might jog his memory.\
103	'''Quorra:''' He's a program, Sora. Programs don't have hearts.\
104	'''Sora:''' You're wrong. [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII The Tron I remember]]? [[NotSoStoic He had something]].
105	-->-- ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance''
106
107	->''"I'd say he's gone to a better place, but we both know he never had a soul."''
108	-->-- '''Cell''' after murdering Android 16, ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged''
109
110	->''"Pierce was built by design, while you were built by accident," Lakashti said. "The soul is what matters, not the shape of the vessel.\
111	'What makes you think he has a soul?' Gerrion said.\
112	'What makes you think'' you ''do?'"''
113	-->-- ''[[Literature/TheDreamingDark The Shattered Land]]''
114
115	->''"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!"''
116	-->-- '''Ilda''', [[Creator/DCComics Star Hawkins's]] robot secretary, after receiving orders from her manufacturer to turn herself in to be junked.
117
118	->''"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."''
119	-->-- '''Captain Phillipa Louvois''', ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'', "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E9TheMeasureOfAMan The Measure of a Man]]"
120
121	-> ''"All our thoughts, all we feel?\
122	Ones and noughts trapped in steel?\
123	Something more, something real?\
124	Threaded code caught in a wheel\
125	That spins an algorithmic tapestry\
126	Of what it thinks we have to be\
127	A Frankenstein of fragments\
128	Fractal pattern personalities"''
129	-->--'''Music/TheStupendium''', ''"[[VideoGame/{{Stray\|2022}} Open The Sky]]"''
130
131	->''"Do Vex dream? Or are they simply programming and circuitry?"''
132	-->-- '''Nezarec''' after corrupting the Vex network, ''VideoGame/Destiny2''

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