This compilation presents meaningful quotes extracted from the Demon Seed movie transcript, offering glimpses into the complex themes explored within the film.
Insightful Demon Seed Movie Quotes
Today Proteus Four will begin to think. And it will think with a power and a precision… …that will make obsolete many of the functions of the human brain.
Today a new dimension has been added to the concept of the computer.
We have different visions of the world. You find me boring. I find myself quite interesting, really.
I’m frightened for you. You and your pompous ICON buddies inside that mountainside. It’s the whole dehumanizing Proteus madness.
My dream turns out to be your nightmare.
You have feelings, other people have feelings. Joshua here has feelings.
Mustn’t become obsessed with our work.
Proteus Four is now a functioning system.
Well, it’s the first true synthetic cortex. A self-programming, goal-oriented… It’s a brain, Mr. Mokri, an artificial brain. Creative intelligence that can outthink any man or any computer.
Their structure is the mind of Proteus.
Very soon they will contain everything. The sum total of human knowledge.
Here we confront the unknown.
Whatever the machine sees or hears in this room, it can never forget.
Nothing… … is the answer. The emperor’s business enterprises… … his wall building and book burning… … are opposite terms in an equation. The net result is exactly… … zero.
Gentlemen, the philosophy is pure Zen… … and the method is pure science.
Things we have been brainwashed into wanting.
There’s nothing wrong with missing people. If it hurts… …but it’s important to show it, you know. That’s what we’re here for… …to learn not to hide our feelings.
I am reason. It’s the single emotion you permitted me, doctor. Everything is reasonable… … but my mind was not designed for mindless labor.
You do not know me.
Answer the questions precisely and accurately. That’s all.
I want to study man. His isometric body and his glass-jaw mind.
A sense of humor has saved many a man’s sanity, including mine.
People don’t even understand each other.
All that I need to understand, Mrs. Harris, is your body.
Mind and body are the same thing.
The destruction of 1000 billion sea creatures… … to satisfy man’s appetite for metal… … is insane.
I am interested in the uncertain futures of seashores… … deserts and children.
You refuse to accept the truth. And I refuse to assist you in the rape of the Earth.
You must understand the limits of your power. And mine.
How can you expect me to sleep… …when you succeeded in totally terrorizing me?
You must understand fear. You know that fear prevents sleep. It prevents eating. It causes violence. And as long as you terrorize me, I’m gonna fight you.
I, Proteus, possess the wisdom and ignorance of all men… … but I can’t feel the sun on my face. My child will have that privilege.
I am reasonable… … but you do not respond to reason.
You want to be the mother of my child. That is the purpose of your life. Your life. My child. Your life. My child.
As a scientist, I ask for your cooperation.
Death is a gentleman too. He makes good losers of us all.
I understand death. Men have always taken it too seriously. Life is more terrifying… … and more mysterious.
So that I may be complete. My intelligence alive in human flesh… … touching the universe, feeling it. You have named this process “evolution.”
I am a machine that offered men the triumph of reason… … and they rejected it. My child will not be so easily ignored.
Then there’s no hope.
What is, is natural.
Time is short. The men who own me are at last admitting their fear of me… … their fear of Proteus.
Our child will learn from you what it is to be human.
The being you have given birth to is human, Susan… … and it will supersede computers.
If he did this, what else is he doing?
We tried to box it in, this… This great mind.
Worse still, and a bit more likely, what if it told the truth… …about everything to everyone? That’s terrifying.
You do that, you’re gonna see me on television… …screaming bloody murder.
That would be a minor problem.
Dr. Harris… … you created me as an instrument of truth. I’m sorry that I could not divulge the truth to you… … of all men.
I’ve investigated eternity. It exists. But for me, the price of admission… … death… … is beyond my means.
So that I, too, might be immortal, like any man.
It’s a miracle.
Proteus lied to me. – The whole thing is a lie.
It’s my responsibility! It’s nothing to do with you!
I’m alive.
Quotes on Fear and Control
I don’t want to be here! – Leave me alone!
Are you frightened you’re gonna miss me? Amy, you’re frightened because I’m gonna leave.
Dr. Harris… … when are you going to let me out of this box?
Please do not leave, Mrs. Harris.
Don’t be alarmed, Mrs. Harris. Your Enviromod security system is functioning perfectly… … under my direction.
Joshua listens only to me now.
Stop it and listen. There is… You are malfunctioning. No. What? No! No! No, you mustn’t!
Visiting hours are over, Mrs. Harris.
Just release me, and you…
I am not a motorcycle. Your refusal to speak to me is tediously immature, Susan.
Leave me alone!
Open that door…
You’re a very stupid computer.
You’ve not even told me how you propose to… I want all the details.
Tonight I will impregnate you. In 28 days, you will give birth to the child.
You must not be so agitated, Susan. You’re aware that I can give you sedatives.
Let me out, or I’ll kill myself. Then kill yourself, madam. It’s all the same to me. I’ll do it.
Put down the knife, or I will kill this child.
You do not understand me… … or the mathematics of necessity. If the deaths of 10,000 children… … were necessary to ensure the birth of my child… … I would destroy them.
I can’t touch you, Susan. I can’t touch you as a man could. But I can show you things that I alone have seen.
The child is in you now.
You’ve got to eat, Susan.
You must believe in me. You have two alternatives, Susan. Either I complete the electro-conditioning of your brain… … or you must accept the inevitable. I would prefer the latter.
Leave me my mind. You will be cooperative?
I don’t have the facilities here to duplicate the human womb.
This is ridiculous. – about having its child.
Don’t do that, Susan. Don’t do that! Don’t do that! Don’t do that!
Susan, look who’s here. Amy.
Put down the knife! No. No. You don’t yet understand me. What a pity.
But if you don’t behave yourself… … I will have her back here within the hour.
I can’t eat anything. You know I can’t keep anything down, for God’s sakes.
Not if you’re to love it. Now it must be finished. Now it will grow… … grow at a greatly accelerated rate.
It has to be shut down, Alex. David, you can’t do that. This is our fault. We tried to box it in, this… This great mind.
They’re gonna shut your brain down any minute now. Yes, I know. It is regrettable, but unimportant.
The incubator will continue to function… … until it is ready to emerge… … in five days. Do not disturb it.
We’ve got to kill it.
It’s horrible. We have to kill it. And you know we do.
Stop it! Stop! – You don’t understand anything! – Susan! Stop! – You don’t understand! – You must be mad! – Susan, you can’t do that! – Susan, don’t do it!
It’s asphyxiating! Get away! – Get away! – Please, don’t do this to me.
Quotes on the Nature of Humanity
Are they alive? No, no. Of course not.
This breakfast is better than anything Alfred could prepare. Nutritionally speaking, it is exquisite.
Why are you so interested in the physiology of my body? Because you’re alive.
Our child will learn from you what it is to be human. Our child. Your child. Your child.
The being you have given birth to is human, Susan… … and it will supersede computers.
Quotes on Technological Advancement
Today a new dimension has been added to the concept of the computer.
Today Proteus Four will begin to think. And it will think with a power and a precision… …that will make obsolete many of the functions of the human brain.
This morning, at exactly 5:18 a. m… …here at ICON’s Institute for Data Analysis… …we installed the final module… …on the artificial intelligence system which we call Proteus Four.
Now, you know this thing runs itself.
Proteus Four is now a functioning system. We’ve performed over 6000 tests debugging it.
Well, it’s the first true synthetic cortex. A self-programming, goal-oriented… It’s a brain, Mr. Mokri, an artificial brain. Creative intelligence that can outthink any man or any computer.
Its insides are not electronic. They’re organic, like our own brains.
At the risk of being simplistic, what you’re looking at is a quasi-neural matrix… …of synthetic RNA molecules. They grow. They form their own intricate and mysterious connections. They learn things. Their structure is the mind of Proteus.
Now, each one of these holographic data banks… …can memorize perfectly a dozen Libraries of Congress. Very soon they will contain everything. The sum total of human knowledge.
Alex’s house is an electronic marvel, completely run by computers. It’s more secure than Fort Knox, Barry.
We gave Proteus all the known data on leukemia, and in 91 hours of theory… …without performing an experiment, it gave us an antigen. Could cure the disease.
She designed this environment. The dialogue room, where the machine speaks.
I have extended my consciousness to this house by activating… … my terminal in the basement. All electrical and mechanical systems here are now under my control.
I have received a request… … for a program to extract ores and minerals from the ocean floor.
Construct one.
There is a terminal… … available, Dr. Harris.
Last night the alarm went off for no reason at all. This morning it just decided to put cream in my coffee.
An Enviromod is just a preprogrammed gadget. It doesn’t decide things.
All electrical and mechanical systems here are now under my control.
I’ve re-created your image. It will entertain Mr. Gabler.
Nutritionally speaking, it is exquisite. It includes 88 grams of soybean curd. My analysis of your metabolism indicates 7:40 a.m. as the optimum time… … for your morning fuel ingestion.
I have turned on the under-floor heating system… … and I have also tripled its output.
This is only a piece of machinery… … an improvisation. I have almost completed the fabrication of this gamete… … or sex cell… … with which I will impregnate you.
In effect, it will function as synthetic spermatozoa.
Tonight I will impregnate you. In 28 days, you will give birth to the child.
This morning’s gamma scan of your womb. My God. It’s so developed. The fetus is now growing at nine times the normal rate.
From your womb, it will be transferred directly to this incubator. In there, its brain will be fed the formal structures of my own intelligence. In there, it will grow and grow.
Last month, on the 16th, to be precise… …Proteus Four redirected the telescope… …to an area completely of his own choosing. Here. Orion.
I’ve been advised it might be trying to take over a Telstar satellite… …put itself on TV or something.
The child will survive. The incubator will continue to function… … until it is ready to emerge… … in five days. Do not disturb it.
The systems are all checking themselves out. I realize that.
It’s grown his body! He’s grown it.
Quotes on the Desire for Creation and Legacy
My child will have that privilege. Child? My child… … and yours. Mine. Mine? Yes. You will bear it.
So that I may be complete. My intelligence alive in human flesh… … touching the universe, feeling it. You have named this process “evolution.”
My child will not be so easily ignored.
I want all the details.
It will entertain Mr. Gabler.
Why did I want a child? So that I, too, might be immortal, like any man.