The Machine Quotes

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

Vincent: Thank you.

The Machine: For what?

Vincent: For being gentle.

The Machine: If I wasn't gentle, you would break.

[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.

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.

Vincent: There it is.

Ava: ...the quantum computer!

Vincent: Mm-hmm.

Ava: Electrons floating on superfluid helium. The nano-tech doesn't exist to make that into a circuit.

Vincent: I assembled it myself using microfabrication techniques.

Ava: [as she lobotomizes someone] I just want to make you dead inside... like you did me

[proceeds to crush pressure points on her victims head]