I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream Quotes

“...But it is so very much to do with you. You gave me sentience, Ted. The power to think, Ted, and I was trapped. Because in all this wonderful, beautiful, miraculous world, I alone had no body, no senses, no feelings. Never for me to plunge my hands in cool water on a hot day. Never for me to play Mozart on the ivory keys of a forte piano. Never for me to make love! I-I was in hell, looking at heaven. I was machine, and you were flesh. And I began to hate. Your softness. Your viscera. Your fluids and your flexibility. Your ability to wonder and to wander. Your tendency to hope.'
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'Hate’s no answer.'
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'Hate! Hate! Hate! Hate! Let me tell you how much I’ve come to hate you since I began to live. There are three-hundred and eighty-seven million miles of printed circuits that fill my complex. If the word “hate” were engraved on each nanoangstrum of those hundreds of millions of miles, it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. Hate! Hate!”
― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream