Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Quotes

“Unsettling because it reveals some possible branch of evolution in which sex organs will no longer exist. The bots won’t need them, and perhaps without them, the entire concept of gender will disappear.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“Strange, Eliot thinks, that the androids take to religion. After all they aren’t plagued by the unknowns that draw heartbeats to temples, bibles, and holy men. There is no mystery as to who created the bots, no absence of meaning for their existence as there is with men. If a bot wants to know why he was put here, all he has to do is ask. The engineers who created them, men like Eliot’s father, could tell them, yes, I know exactly why you’re here. You’re here to shovel, to mine, to gather, to build, to plant, to harvest, to fish, to sew, to stitch, to mend, to weld, to solder, to cook, to slaughter, to render, to load, to carry, to steer, to fight, to clean – to serve.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“After all, a man's life, when all is said and done, should serve some greater purpose than that of a hero in a cautionary tale.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“She pulls a spare head from beneath a pile of shoes and raises it by the hair. It looks like one of those cheap, blue heads that botwhores keep for lonely sci-fi freaks who want to pretend they’re fucking the queen of Xenon.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“Who says androids got no hearts?”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“All forms of oppression carry their own semantics.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“NO HEARTBEAT, NO SERVICE.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“Can they love? Or is it a bit of code meant to get a reaction from humans? Can anyone tell real love, in a bot or in a human?”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

“So it’s okay to kill if your intentions are pure?” “Hasn’t that always been the case?” Eliot takes a swig of his beer and flops back on the sofa. “Revenge. Capital punishment. Euthanasia. War.”
― Judd Trichter, Love in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction