The Matrix quotes

View Quote [last words] No, I don't believe it.

View Quote As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Anderson. It seems that you've been living two lives. In one life, you're Thomas A. Anderson, program writer for a respectable software company. You have a Social Security number, you pay your taxes, and... you help your landlady carry out the garbage. The other life is lived in computers, where you go by the hacker alias Neo, and are guilty of virtually every computer crime we have a law for. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. I'm going to be as forthcoming as I can be, Mr. Anderson. You're here because we need your help. We know that you've been contacted by a certain individual: A man who calls himself Morpheus. Now, whatever you think you know about this man is irrelevant. He is considered by many authorities to be the most dangerous man alive. My colleagues believe that I'm wasting my time with you, but I believe you wish to do the right thing. We're willing to wipe the slate clean. Give you a fresh start. And all that we're asking in return is your cooperation in bringing a known terrorist to justice.

View Quote Hmm, Mr. Anderson. You disappoint me.

View Quote We meet again Mr. Anderson

View Quote And tell me, Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if you're unable to speak?

View Quote You're going to help us, Mr. Anderson. Whether you want to or not.

View Quote Do we have a deal, Mr. Reagan?

View Quote Whatever you want, Mr. Reagan.

View Quote The great Morpheus; we meet at last.

View Quote Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious. Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world, where none suffered? Where everyone would be happy? It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this, the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization, which is, of course, what this is all about: Evolution, Morpheus, evolution. Like the dinosaur. Look out that window. You had your time. The future is our world, Morpheus. The future is our time.

View Quote Find them and destroy them.

View Quote You're empty.

View Quote I'm going to enjoy watching you die, Mr. Anderson.

View Quote [Referring to the Lady in red, which he created] She doesn't talk very much, but if you'd like to meet her, I can arrange a much more personalized meeting.

View Quote Pay no attention to these hypocrites, Neo- to deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.