The Matrix Fate and Free Will Quotes

Hmm, Neo's reasoning seems to fall into the wishful thinking fallacy. He doesn't believe in fate because he doesn't like, or agree with what believing in fate would imply. It's scary, really: thinking you're not in control of what happens to you. But just because it's scary doesn't mean it isn't the case. We don't like to believe that eating triple chocolate cake for every meal is unhealthy, but that doesn't mean that it isn't (not that that stops us…).

Up until this point, we assumed that, because Smith was a program, he was operating purely under the will of the machines that had programmed him. But now it appears he is autonomous. He has a mind and a will of his own. He is not happy with his station and will do anything to escape the "zoo" or "prison" of the Matrix. In one hand the movie questions whether anyone has free will and in the other it provides evidence that even a program, which simulates an agent in a virtual reality, can possess it.