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 POIN…”

— John D. Brancato, Michael Ferris, John Connor, Christian Bale, imdb.com

“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 anot…”

— Graham Moore, Alan Turing, Benedict Cumberbatch, imdb.com

“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?”

— Jonathan Brackley, Sam Vincent, Hobb, Danny Webb, imdb.com

“The machines don't care how old I am. They'll kill me just the same.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Kid, Clayton Watson, imdb.com

“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.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Councillor Hamann, Anthony Zerbe, imdb.com

“Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.”

— Lilly Wachowski, Lana Wachowski, Morpheus, Laurence Fishburne, imdb.com

“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.”

— B.K. Taylor, Jill Taylor, Patricia Richardson, imdb.com

“People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed.”

— Rick Riordan, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com