Computer quotes

“- Frank Corvin: Hawk, this isn't a stripped-down showplane. You've got to do it their way.
- Hawk Hawkins: I don't need a damn computer to tell me how to land an aircraft.
- Roger Hines: It's not an aircraft, Colonel. It's a flying brick, and you've got to use the computer's protocols.”

Clint Eastwood - Frank Corvin
Tommy Lee Jones - Hawk Hawkins
Courtney B. Vance - Roger Hines

“- Q: Good to see you, Mr. Bond. Things've been awfully dull 'round here. Bureaucrats running the whole place. Everything done by the book. Can't make a decision unless the computer gives you the go ahead. Now you're on this. I hope we're going to have some gratuitous sex and violence!
- James Bond: I certainly hope so too.”
Alec McCowen - Q
Sir Sean Connery - James Bond

“Why look at the computer when you can look at the real thing?”
Arabella Field - Nancy

“What he did was great! He designed his computer so that it could learn from its own mistakes. So, they'd be better the next time they played. The system actually learned how to learn. It could teach itself!”
Matthew Broderick - David

“- Sark: There's nothing special about you. You're just an ordinary program.
- Kevin Flynn: So are you, one that should have been erased.”

David Warner - Sark
Jeff Bridges - Kevin Flynn

“My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer. The more contact I have with humans, the more I learn.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger - The Terminator

“- Veronica Quaife: It tastes... synthetic. So, what have we proved?
- Seth Brundle: The computer is giving us its interpretation of a steak. It's translating it for us; it's rethinking it, rather than reproducing it, and something is getting lost in the translation.”

Geena Davis - Veronica Quaife
Jeff Goldblum - Seth Brundle

“The computer, another idea stolen from the black man.”
Dave Chappelle - Conspiracy Brother

- ROC: Voice interface.
- Elaine: There's an overheat in the core. Please analyze problem.
- ROC: There is no apparent overheat.
- Elaine: Yes, there is, ROC. We read a core overheat. Repeat analysis.
- ROC: Analysis confirmed. All systems compute positive.
- Elaine: Well, not from where I'm sitting, they don't!
- ROC: Look, Elaine. Cut the "not... (continue)(continue reading)
Ken Finkleman - ROC
Julie Hagerty - Elaine

“- Wyatt Donnelly: We're in trouble Gary. This is highly illegal.
- Gary Wallace: We need more input. We gotta fill this thing up with data. We gotta make her as real as possible, Wyatt. I want her to live. I want her to breathe. I want her to aerobicize.”

Ilan Mitchell-Smith - Wyatt Donnelly
Anthony Michael Hall - Gary Wallace

“- Ross Webster: What will it do?
- Gus Gorman: Anything I tell it.
- Ross Webster: What will it do for me?
- Gus Gorman: For you, it will do anything you tell me to tell it to do for you.”

Robert Vaughn - Ross Webster
Richard Pryor - Gus Gorman

“The WOPR spends all it's time thinking about World War III. Twenty-four hours a day, 365 days a year, it plays an endless series of WarGames using all available information on the state of the world. The WOPR has already fought World War III as a game time and time again. It estimates Soviet responses to our responses to their responses and so...” (continue)(continue reading)
Irving Metzman - Richter

“We're nothing but a simulation on some computer.”
Craig Bierko - Douglas Hall

“- Artim: Do machines ever play?
- Data: Yes. I play the violin, and my chess routines are quite advanced.
- Artim: No, I mean, haven't you ever just played? For fun?
- Data: Androids do not have fun.”
Michael Welch - Artim
Brent Spiner - Data

“I thought you might like to meet a friend. Or at least my boss's computer.”

Lenny von Dohlen - Miles Harding

“What do you think you are gonna do with that? Play Ms. Pac-Man or something?”

Louis Gossett Jr. - Jake Berkowitz

“That's our new computer. We can pinpoint any fire in town with that. It's perfect for us, because, you know, we're the fire department.”
Michael J. Pollard - Andy

“Hiring Nedry was a mistake, that's obvious. We're over-dependent on automation. I can see that now. Now, the next time, everything is correctible. Creation is an act of sheer will. Next time it'll be flawless.”

Richard Attenborough - Hammond

“Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing.”

Tom Hanks - Forrest Gump

“- Seth Brundle: It can't cope with the flesh. It only seems to work on inanimate objects; nothing that's living.
- Veronica Quaife: Why?
- Seth Brundle: Computers are dumb. They only know what you tell them... I must not know enough about the flesh myself. I'm gonna have to learn.”

Jeff Goldblum - Seth Brundle
Geena Davis - Veronica Quaife

“I'm completely operational, and all my circuits are functioning perfectly.”
Douglas Rain - HAL 9000

“I wouldn't trust this overgrown pile of microchips any further than I can throw it.”
Barry Corbin - General Beringer

“- Cooper: Hulse, I want you to put a special mike on him tonight, one that isolates everything he plays from the rest of the orchestra. Carson, you link it into the GBLX 1000 computer.
- Maddy: The GBLX?
- Cooper: Yeah. That thing'll break any code.
- Maddy: But that's in control of our entire missile defense system!”

Dabney Coleman - Cooper
Lori Singer - Maddy

“- Annie McHugh: Max, I need you to do me a favor.
- Max the Computer: Max has the facts!
- Annie McHugh: Come on, Max, this is no time for you to be a little snot. We're going to need your help.
- Max the Computer: You want the facts? Just ask Max!”
Cindy Williams - Annie McHugh
Broderick Crawford - Max the Computer

“- Jack: Is that business or pleasure?
- Angela: Is there a difference?”

Jeremy Northam - Jack
Sandra Bullock - Angela