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Ha, ha. You've got to expect some static. After all, computers are just machines; they can't think.
— Tron ‧ 1982
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
The speaker laughs and treats static as something to expect from computers, then supports that reassurance by calling them unthinking machines. The reasoning sounds confident and dismissive. One reading finds a comic tension between the certainty of the explanation and whatever behaviour prompted it.
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