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Throughout human history, we have been dependent on machines to survive. Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.
— Morpheus · The Matrix
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An editorial interpretation.
The speaker observes that people have relied on machines for survival throughout history. Fate, in this dry remark, appears to have a sense of irony about that dependence, as if the arrangement were a quiet cosmic joke.
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