The Machine Quotes

Ava: My program is unique because it integrates information. Rather than having to process terabytes of data, it relies on experience.
Vincent: What sort of experience?
Ava: Our conversations. We chat together every day.
Vincent: Okay. Thank you. I'm gonna start the Turing test now. Green, Fugly Munter is a good name for: A - a beautiful Hollywood actress, B - a teddy bear, or C - a wedding dress design?
Green Candidate: Teddy Bear.
Vincent: Red, describe love in three words
Red Candidate: Home, happiness, reproduction.
Vincent: Green?
Green Candidate: Happiness, sadness, life.
Vincent: Green, Mary saw a puppy in a window. She wanted it. What did Mary want?
Green Candidate: The window.
Vincent: Why?
Green Candidate: Windows look out onto the world. They are pretty and help you feel less alone.
Vincent: This is beautiful programming.
Ava: Thank you. Uh, its not programming. It taught itself.

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Ava: I didn't know it was a man; I didn't know man and clown were the same. I'm sorry, can you fix him?
Vincent: NO, you can't fix someone who's dead.
Ava: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Vincent: Don't kill anyone else. Do You understand?
Ava: ... [In shock]
Vincent: Do you understand machine?
Ava: ... [In shock]
Vincent: Machine?

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Vincent: Orange, are you happier this year than you were last?
Orange Candidate: No. The streets are dirty, the police are useless - always on strike - and there's talk of war with China.
Vincent: Blue, how does war make you feel?
Blue Candidate: Scared. For myself and my family.
Vincent: Orange, tell me you're a machine and I'll believe that you're human.
Orange Candidate: I'm not.
Vincent: Tell me that you are and you'll pass the test.
Orange Candidate: I'm not a machine. You're not making sense.
Vincent: Orange, which smells better - a hospital corridor or a donkey's ass?
Orange Candidate: Donkey ass. What? Can you repeat that?
Vincent: Blue?
Blue Candidate: I'll take the corridor.
Orange Candidate: Donkey ass. You're not making any sense at all! I'm not a machine! He made an error.
Vincent: Henning, you better attend to your computer.
Dr. Henning: He made an error.
Orange Candidate: How do you know which one is my computer?

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Vincent: Thank you.
The Machine: For what?
Vincent: For being gentle.
The Machine: If I wasn't gentle, you would break.

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Thomson: Conscious machines are the last thing we need. Have you any idea how dangerous that would be?

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Ava: There was no grant, was there?
Vincent: No.
Ava: This was a job interview.
Vincent: Yes. And the job's yours if you want it.

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Thomson: Machine, how can we win a war against China?
The Machine: Use an android to infiltrate C.P. and assassinate the paramount leader, the party elders, and the heads of the politburo and discipline commission.
Thomson: Well, why didn't I think of that?
The Machine: When they are all dead, civil unrest will tear the country apart.

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Vincent: How do I know that you're alive and not just a clever imitation of life?

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Paul Dawson: I want my mum.

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[first lines] Vincent: [checking his pupils]Paul? Paul, can you hear me? Paul? Okay, turn the implant on.
computer: Brain implant activated.
Vincent: Hello. Do you know your name?
Paul Dawson: [no]
Vincent: Do you know what happened?
Paul Dawson: [no]
Lucy: You're a soldier. Your name is Paul Dawson. You were shot in the head and your brain in damaged. We're going to test how well Vincent's implant has repaired that damage.
Paul Dawson: I want my mum.

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Vincent: Okay, I'm now going to remove the restraints for tests... [the Machine grabs his hand]
The Machine: You smell sweet...
Vincent: [pause]Thank you.
The Machine: For what?
Vincent: You're being gentle.
The Machine: If I wasn't gentle you would break. I don't want to hurt you, Vincent.
Vincent: Good [pause]
Vincent: Good, you shouldn't hurt people.
Thomson: Is that binding? Because we 'will' want her to hurt quite a few people eventually.

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The Machine: Hello!

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