Out, Out Technology and Modernization Quotes

If man is an animal, then what is machine? Why does Frost use these words? It's as if the saw has taken on a primal, violent will of its own.

Frost is mixing the role of the boy and of the machine without actually describing their interactions here.

Wait, wait, wait—the saw is conscious? Everybody run—The Matrix came true! Actually, it's more that these two (boy and saw) seem to share a consciousness. Spooky.

Why do people describe hearts as "tickers"? This scene suggests that, to some extent, we are made up of machines, with distinctive noises to hear and not hear.