- John Connor: [Sarah is about to smash the Terminator's chip with a sledgehammer but John stops her] No! Don't!
- Sarah Connor: Out of my way, John.
- John Connor: Don't kill him.
- Sarah Connor: 'It', John. Not him, 'it'.
- John Connor: Okay, 'it'. But we need 'it'!
- Sarah Connor: Listen to me, listen, we're better off on our own.
- John Connor: But it's the only proof we have, of the future, of the war and all that!
- Sarah Connor: Maybe. I don't trust it.
- John Connor: But he's my friend, all right?
- Sarah Connor: You don't know what it's like to try and kill one of these things, and if something goes wrong this could be our last chance so move!
- John Connor: Look, Mom, If I'm supposed to be this great military leader, maybe you should listen to my leadership ideas once and a while! Cause if my own mother won't, how do you expect anyone else to?
- Sarah Connor: [Sarah looks at the chip and slams the sledgehammer down, narrowly missing it] All right, play it your way.
- John Connor: Can you learn stuff you haven't been programmed with so you could be... you know, more human? And not such a dork all the time?
- The Terminator: My CPU is a neural-net processor; a learning computer. But Skynet presets the switch to read-only when we're sent out alone.
- Sarah Connor: Doesn't want you doing too much thinking, huh?
- The Terminator: No.
- The Terminator: [after reinserting the chip inside The Termiator's head] Was there a problem?
- John Connor: No problem, none whatsoever.