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Is there a line from a movie that really resonated with you but when you say it most people don't get the reference? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by aCosmicWave@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Mine is from an early 2000s film called Vanilla Sky.

“The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.”

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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Listen to the sounds of the machine" From Elephant's Dream, a short animated film.

I'm an engineer, and there's something almost spiritual about that line and its delivery. I think about it every time I'm debugging or trying to understand how a complex system works

[–] stringere@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something tells me you would like the Love, Death, and Robots episode "The Very Pulse of the Machine".

[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I did!

And now I'm learning it's based off a short story. Gonna have to pick that up.