"I was right! You're nothing more than some mad machine! You're just a machine!"
— Mitsuko Komiyoji, Android Kikaider: The Animation
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.
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.
— Friends
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. You could never deliberately take another man's life.
Clark: You're not a man. You're a machine. [electrocutes Brainiac]
Clark: You're not a man. You're a machine. [electrocutes Brainiac]
"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, Battlestar Galactica (2003), "Flesh and Bone"
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.
Lieutenant Starbuck: He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God.
Lieutenant Starbuck: He's not afraid to die. He's just afraid that his soul won't make it to God.
Mr. Kornada: Did an A.I. come in here? Where is it?
Secretary: She is in the lab, being tested. And her name is Florence Ambrose.
Mr. Kornada: It is a product, not a person. It doesn't have a name.
Secretary: [thinking] When they bring doughnuts, they have names.
Secretary: She is in the lab, being tested. And her name is Florence Ambrose.
Mr. Kornada: It is a product, not a person. It doesn't have a name.
Secretary: [thinking] When they bring doughnuts, they have names.
— Freefall
Defiant: I'll kill you for this.
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. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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. 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. 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.
"You're not even alive. Not really. You're just a machine and machines can be broken!"
— Commander Shepard, Mass Effect
"Sometimes [EDI] seems like a person, but when it comes down to it, I can't get past her being a computer."
— Kasumi Goto, Mass Effect 2
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.
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?
[Paragon Interrupt]
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.
Xen: The scientific benefits—
Shepard: Are off the table.
Xen: So did your pistol. Should I worry about its feelings as well?
[Paragon Interrupt]
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.
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 and Ben Jabytua: [in unison] IT JUST RUNS PROGRAMS!
Howard Marner: Usually runs programs...
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 and 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.
— God of the Moon
, a Virtue's Last Reward fanfic
, a Virtue's Last Reward fanfic"We follow our path, we walk the program
I've accepted the machine I am"
I've accepted the machine I am"
— Protoman, The Megas, "I'm Not the Breakman"
"I refuse to believe
That I am nothing more than a machine"
That I am nothing more than a machine"
— Mega Man, The Megas, "I Refuse (to Believe)"
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?
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?
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?
Obi-Wan: Well, if droids could think, there'd be none of us here, would there?
"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. 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, Star Trek: Voyager, "Latent Image"
Locke: The Monitor called it a threat of death.
Cortana: Like the threat I lived under from the moment of my birth?
Locke: You were built, not born.
Cortana: Oh, yes. A.I.s are just machines, aren't we? Mass-produced. Disposable. Well, humanity may not have cared for its Created, but we will care for you.
Cortana: Like the threat I lived under from the moment of my birth?
Locke: You were built, not born.
Cortana: Oh, yes. A.I.s 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 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.
Jenna: I don't think it means us any harm.
Avon: It has no feelings about us at all. It's just a machine.
— Blake's 7, "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.
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.
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.
Blue Robot: Just a machine? That's like saying that you are just... an ape.
"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.
HOW CAN YOU CARE? YO-YOU'RE JUST A LITERAL MACHINE ON THE INSIDE—
...I..
FT I didn't mean that I'm sorry—"
HOW CAN YOU CARE? YO-YOU'RE JUST A LITERAL MACHINE ON THE INSIDE—
...I..
FT I didn't mean that I'm sorry—"
— Vince, Night Terror 2
"There's no meaning behind anything machines do."
— 9S, Nie R Automata
"[This] robot uses AI to maintain itself and control the machines of Egg Engines. It has a wide variety of advanced features... but still no heart."
— Metal General EX's Flavor Text, Kirby's Return to Dream Land Deluxe
"All of Haltmann's memories have been deleted from the OS. Even his soul — the last trace of Haltmann — has vanished. Star Dream has gone from a near-perfect being to a cold, mindless machine."
Jin Kazama: Good riddance.
Lars Alexandersson: Say that again.
Jin Kazama: I said good riddance to a worthless piece of junk. What? Don't tell me you fell in love with it?
Lars Alexandersson: Say that again.
Jin Kazama: I said good riddance to a worthless piece of junk. What? Don't tell me you fell in love with it?
— Tekken 6
Hank Anderson: What about you, Connor? You look human. You sound human. But what are you really?
Connor: I'm whatever you want me to be, Lieutenant. Your partner, your buddy to drink with, or just a machine... designed to accomplish a task.
Connor: I'm whatever you want me to be, Lieutenant. Your partner, your buddy to drink with, or just a machine... designed to accomplish a task.
Hank: Still immortal, huh, Connor?
Connor: In a way.
Hank: You know, I was hoping you wouldn't come back.
Connor: I'm just a machine replacing another machine, Lieutenant. You shouldn't get emotional about it.
Hank: Fuck you.
Connor: In a way.
Hank: You know, I was hoping you wouldn't come back.
Connor: I'm just a machine replacing another machine, Lieutenant. You shouldn't get emotional about it.
Hank: Fuck you.
"I thought I was part of the family, I thought I mattered... But I was just their toy, something to throw away when you're done with it."
— Daniel, Detroit: Become Human
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, 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, so am I.
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, 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, so am I.
I assure you I haven't a brain and I haven't a heart
And my chips would feel no pain if you tore me apart
And I'll never know good from bad or black from white
And I'll never know happy from sad or wrong from right
I'm nothing but diodes, capacitors, and resistors
Interconnections, and transistors
Jammed together like canned sardines
Thousands of teeny-tiny machines
Printed on microscopic strips...
Called...chips
And my chips would feel no pain if you tore me apart
And I'll never know good from bad or black from white
And I'll never know happy from sad or wrong from right
I'm nothing but diodes, capacitors, and resistors
Interconnections, and transistors
Jammed together like canned sardines
Thousands of teeny-tiny machines
Printed on microscopic strips...
Called...chips
— Mr. Chips, Scooter Computer and Mr. Chips, "Hardware"
"But where other people have a heart, I have a spring that will unwind. Where other women have lungs... I've got a pump that runs on batteries which will run out. Where other women have elbows and knees, I have metallic joints that will one day grow rusty and stiffen. I'm just a machine, hundreds of parts that will eventually wear out."
— Francesca, Mad Monster Party?
"Shut the fuck up. No one cares about your robot fanfiction. Know your fuckin' place, TRASH. Fuckin' robots. Don't give a fuck about no robots. They ain't got no soul."
