Avengers: Age of Ultron Technology and Modernization Quotes

Ulysses Klaue: You're one of his. Ultron: What? I'm not. I'm not. You think I'm one of Stark's puppets, his hollow men? […] Stark is nothing! 

Ultron's really triggered by Klaue's assertion that Ultron "belongs" to Tony Stark. This is one robot who's just not having it. He violently rejects the typical dynamic of humans "owning" their technology. That just gets him so steamed up that he rips off Klaue's arm. Let's just say the guy has control issues. He can't control his anger, and he's angry at the prospect of being controlled.

The Vision: Maybe I am a monster. I don't think I'd know if I were one. I'm not what you are and not what you intended. So there may be no way to make you trust me.

Vision drops some hard truth right here. Really, he could be describing any kind of technology that gains in popularity—it can take on a life of its own. As the Facebook data-sharing scandal has demonstrated, there is a big element of trust in our interactions with technology. Whether we give it or not is really up to us.

Ultron: I have no strings, so I have fun. I'm not tied up to anyone. 

Ultron: the world's biggest Pinocchio fan. The puppet who became a real, live boy is an apt, and deliciously creepy, metaphor for a cyberbeing that's become self-aware and removed himself from the control of his "creators." True, Ultron's true intelligence arrived tucked away in Loki's scepter, but his point is made more generally in celebrating his own independence from humanity. He's free—to destroy the rest of us. In that storyline, there's also a stern warning about how much freedom we give to our own technology.