Comment by throwup238
4 days ago
That’s fun! Looks like he said it at the 1994 Macworld Expo. I wonder if that inspired the Matrix quote a few years later.
4 days ago
That’s fun! Looks like he said it at the 1994 Macworld Expo. I wonder if that inspired the Matrix quote a few years later.
perhaps, though also "humans are the plague" is a popular trope in science fiction. e.g. this one is from pratchett, in a conversation between rats in "the amazing maurice and his educated rodents":
You will have worked out that there is a race in this world which steals and kills and spreads disease and despoils what it cannot use, said the voice of Spider.
'Yes,' said Dangerous Beans. 'That's easy. It's called humanity.'