QUOTES FROM BLADE RUNNER
Concept of Androids: He had wondered as had most people at one time or another precisely why an android bounced helplessly about when confronted by an empathy-measuring test. Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathic faculty probably required an unimpaired group instinct; a solitary organism, such as a spider, would have no use for it; in fact it would tend to abort a spider's ability to survive. It would make him conscious of the desire to live on the part of his prey. Hence all predators, even highly developed mammals such as cats, would starve.
Concept of Androids: Empathy, he once had decided, must be limited to herbivores or anyhow omnivores who could depart from a meat diet. Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated.
Concept of Androids: what it means to be human
Deckard: Quite a thing to live in fear isn't it?
Deckard: I was quit when I come in here. I'm twice as quit now.
Deckard: She's a Replicant, isn't she?
Deckard: Shakes? Me too. I get them bad. It's part of the business.
Deckard: How can it not know what it is?
Deckard: Sushi. That's what my ex-wife called me. Cold fish.
Deckard: I've had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so
charming...
Deckard: Shakes? Me too. I get 'em bad. It's part of the business.
Deckard 'retires' them
Deckard: They don't advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my
profession. Ex-cop. Ex-blade runner. Ex-killer.
Deckard: I've had people walk out on me before, but not when I was being so charming. Deckard: Replicants are like any other machine. They're either a benefit or a hazard. If they're a benefit, it's not my problem.
Deckard: Memories. You're talking about memories!
Deckard: I dreamt music.
Deckard: You've done a man's job sir....
Tyrell: Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. "More human than human" is our motto. Rachael is an experiment. Nothing more.
Tyrell: Milk and cookies kept you awake?
Tyrell: coding system cannot be revised once it's been established
Tyrell: The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. And you have burned so very very brightly, Roy.
Batty: It's not an easy thing to meet your maker.
Batty: I've done . . . questionable things. Nothing the God of biomechanics wouldn't let you into heaven for.
Batty: You'd better get it up, or I'm gonna have to kill you!
Batty: 4,5 - how to stay alive' shouts Batty
Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the
shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser Gate. All those moments lost in time. Like tears in rain.
Rachael: Is this testing whether I'm a replicant, or a lesbian, Mr Deckard?
Rachael: Have you ever taken that test yourself?
Rachael: I'm not in the business... I am the business
Sebastian: "There's some of me in you."
"accelerated decrepitude"
"Methuselah Syndrome"
'won't work in this town again'
"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes".
"retires"
"human"
"replication" "replicants"
"If only you could see what I've seen with your eyes".
"at least equal in intelligence, to the genetic engineers who created them".
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