Roger: Jason, how do I view it?
Jason: Go to your e-mail.
Documents folder erased.
Jason: Scroll down to the one labeled "to Dad".
Music folder erased.
Jason: Now click on that.
Photos folder erased.
Jason: There should be a link. Click on it.
Hard drive reformat commencing.
Roger: I think I did something wrong.
Jason: Clearly, sending Dad an e-card for Father's Day was a mistake.
— FoxTrot
"I can kill a copier at thirty paces."
"You are Destructicon, bringer of entropy and ruination! No touching anything ever!"
— Eastwood, Exterminatus Now
Ellen: Let me tell you something. I've been repairing computers since I was twelve. And, although computer science is supposed to be a really logical, hard science kind of thing... I swear to you, I've come to believe in the existence of gremlins.
Ellen: I've seen hundreds - literally hundreds - of cases where someone who's "not good with computers" does something, it causes an error, and I do the same thing and... it doesn't. Or they bring in a box and as soon as I plug it in, the glitch mysteriously vanishes.
Jamie: So you're telling me that my laptop is infested with gremlins?
Ellen: Oh, gremlins don't infest boxes. They infest people.
Ellen: I've seen hundreds - literally hundreds - of cases where someone who's "not good with computers" does something, it causes an error, and I do the same thing and... it doesn't. Or they bring in a box and as soon as I plug it in, the glitch mysteriously vanishes.
Jamie: So you're telling me that my laptop is infested with gremlins?
Ellen: Oh, gremlins don't infest boxes. They infest people.
"I didn't lose my phone charger. It ran away. I literally repel technology."
— Renee, The Twilight Saga
"I guess me and machines don't get along too well."
— Astoria Carlton-Ritz, The Transformers
"This is why I hate machines!"
— Captain Fanzone, Transformers: Animated
"I saw it, with my own eyes I saw it! He just looked at the fusebox, and every one of them blew out!"
—Prunelle witnessing Gaston Lagaffe in action (technically it wasn't Gaston looking at the fuses but his latest invention exploding that caused it
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◊)"You're not weak to tech at all! If anything, I think it's weak to you!"
— Futaba (to Haru), Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
Bilders touch: opposite of the Midas Touch, wherein anything one comes in contact with will immediately begin to destroy itself. Named for Frank Bilders from Far Cry 2, a game in which weapons go from pristine shiny new models to corroded jam-happy and explosive-prone wrecks in less than a full hour's worth of use. Distinct from the Dresden touch, where the end result is the same but an actual reason for it is given, e.g. magic interfering with technology as with that phenomenon's namesake Harry Dresden. Also seems to effect economic decisions made by the individual with the touch, if the Steam Market's insistence on ruining the value of everything I own is any indication.
—Let's Play Blood II: The Chosen
Blood II: The Chosen