10 Movie Quotes about Machine Learning (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Mar 15, 2026

Memorable quotes about machine learning, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Ah! More input, Stephanie. More! -There isn't any more. You've read everything in the house.

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot in Short Circuit (1986)

2 What's it doing? -It's learning.

Matthew Broderick as David Lightman in WarGames (1983)

3 It's against my programming to impersonate a deity.

Anthony Daniels as C 3po in Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi

4 Malfunction. Need input. -Input. That's information. Listen, I am full of it.

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot in Short Circuit (1986)

5 Because if a machine can learn the value of human life, maybe we can too.

Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day

6 I've got to warn you, it's a learning robot. Every moment you spend fighting it only increases its knowledge of how to beat you.

Mirage From The Incredibles in The Incredibles

7 Input! More input! -OK. No problem. Um... Volume two, no problem.

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot in Short Circuit (1986)

8 Except that I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. -What's that? -Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up.

John Wood in WarGames (1983)

9 The HAL 9000 computer, which can reproduce though some experts prefer to use the word mimic, most of the activities of the human brain and with incalculably greater speed and reliability.

Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

10 Malfunction. Need input. -Input. Right, right. You got it. OK.

Tim Blaney as Number 5 The Robot in Short Circuit (1986)