"It may seem strange, to say even machines can have their heart melted, but when you are stuck inside one for years, reaching the edge of reality can seem the only way to survive."

 "Have you melted the heart of a machine?"

 "I can't know, and I'm embarrassed now, maybe I am a little delusional.  But what I mean is that we have to do something, and the processes of a machine are just processes like any other."