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Quotes tagged “Machines”

“This is John Connor. If you're listening to this, you are the resistance. Listen carefully, if we attack tonight, our humanity is lost. Command wants us to fight like machines. They want us to make cold, calculated decisions. But we are not machines! And if we behave like them, then WHAT IS THE POINT IN WINNING? Command is going to ask you to attack Skynet. I am asking you not to. If even one bomb drops on Skynet before sunrise, our future will be lost. So please stand down. Give me time to protect the future that all of us are fighting for. This is John Connor.”
— John Connor, Terminator Salvation
Tagged: Resistance, humanity, Machines, Skynet
“Of course machines can't think as people do. A machine is different from a person. Hence, they think differently. The interesting question is, just because something, uh... thinks differently from you, does that mean it's not thinking? Well, we allow for humans to have such divergences from one another. You like strawberries, I hate ice-skating, you cry at sad films, I am allergic to pollen. What is the point of... different tastes, different... preferences, if not, to say that our brains work differently, that we think differently? And if we can say that about one another, then why can't we say the same thing for brains... built of copper and wire, steel?”
— Alan Turing, The Imitation Game
Tagged: Machines, Thinking, pollen, allergy, ice-skating
“Hobb: Robert, these machines are conscious!

Robert: How do you know they don't just simulate it?

Hobb: How do I know you don't?”
— Hobb, Humans, Series 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Machines, Technology, Robots, Conscious, Simulation, Philosophical
“The machines don't care how old I am. They'll kill me just the same.”
— Kid, The Matrix Revolutions
Tagged: Machines, Ageism, Murder
“These machines keep us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? The power to give life, and the power to end it.”
— Councillor Hamann, The Matrix Reloaded
Tagged: Machines, Death, Life
“Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”
— Morpheus, The Matrix
Tagged: History, Machines, Irony, Dependence
“Jill: Wilson, do you think humans are more important than machines?

Wilson: Without a doubt. Although, I am awfully fond of my waffle maker.

Jill: Well could you please tell that to the knucklehead I'm married to?

Wilson: Oh, he knows. He's had my waffles.”
— Jill Taylor, Home Improvement, Season 2: Heavy Meddle
Tagged: humans, Machines
“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”
— Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4)
Tagged: People, Machines, broken, fixed
“The corporation is an externalizing machine in the same way that a shark is a killing machine. There isn't any question of malevolence or will.”
— Robert Montis, Empire of Illusion
Tagged: Life, Corporations, Machines, Malevolence

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