Ex Machina * Quotes

"They thougt that search engines were a map of what people were thinking, but actually they were a map of how people were thinking."

"If you've created a conscious machine, it's not the history of man. That's the history of gods."

"One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape, living in dust, with crude language and tools, all set for extinction."

"Is it strange to have made something that hates you?"

Nathan: "C'mon buddy. After a long day of Turing tests you gotta unwind."
Caleb: "What were you doing with Ava?"
Nathan: "What?"
Caleb: "You tore up her picture."
Nathan: "I'm gonna tear up the fucking dance floor, dude. Check it out."

Caleb: "Did you program her to flirt with me?"
Nathan: "If I did, would that be cheating?"
Caleb: "Wouldn't it?"
Nathan: "Caleb, what's your type?"
Caleb: "Of girl?"
Nathan: "No, of salad dressing. Yeah, of girl... what's your type of girl? You know what, don't even answer that. Let's say it's black chicks. Okay, that's your thing. For the sake of argument, that's your thing, okay? Why is that your thing? Because you did a detailed analysis of all racial types and you cross referenced that analysis with a pointsbased system? No! You're just attracted to black chicks. A consequence of accumulated external stimuli that you probably didn't even register as they registered with you."
Caleb: "Did you program her to like me, or not?"
Nathan: "I programmed her to be heterosexual, just like you were programmed to be heterosexual."
Caleb: "Nobody programmed me to be straight."
Nathan: "You decided to be straight? Please! Of course you were programmed, by nature or nurture or both and to be honest, Caleb, you're starting to annoy me now because this is your insecurity talking, this is not your intellect.

"I am become death, the Destroyer of Worlds."
[Quote from J. Robert Oppenheimer]