I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

How do you say 'We come in peace' when the very words are an act of war?

I am the bridge between the bleeding edge and the dead center. I stand between the Wizard of Oz and the man behind the curtain. I am the curtain.

Radar is too long in the tooth for fine detail.

But when the flash flood crosses your path, when the lion leaps at you from the grasses, advanced self-awareness is an unaffordable indulgence. The brain stem does its best.

Are you kidding? That's the music of the spheres, commissar. It's beautiful. Like old jazz.