Timothy: "This is great. How is yours?"
Data: "The complex polysaccharides, in reaction with the carbon dioxide,
produces an unusual combination of texture and effervescence."
Timothy: "But how does it taste? Is it good?"
Data: "I am not capable of tasting in the manner you suggest. However, I can
analyze the composition of a dessert, then make comparative conclusions about
its possible effect on the human palatte. But I neither like it, nor dislike
it."
Timothy: "Oh, I didn't realize that."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Data: "The complex polysaccharides, in reaction with the carbon dioxide,
produces an unusual combination of texture and effervescence."
Timothy: "But how does it taste? Is it good?"
Data: "I am not capable of tasting in the manner you suggest. However, I can
analyze the composition of a dessert, then make comparative conclusions about
its possible effect on the human palatte. But I neither like it, nor dislike
it."
Timothy: "Oh, I didn't realize that."
-- "Hero Worship", Stardate 45397.3
Related:
- Data: "Timothy, your head movements are counterproductive.
Can you be still?" Timothy: "But you do it." Data:... - Timothy: "You hate it."
Data: "No. I am not capable of hatred."
-
"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397... - Timothy: "Data, are there any other androids in Starfleet?"
Data:
"No. I am the only one." Timothy: "How come you're... - Timothy: "Data, how come you can do that?"
Data: "I am designed to exceed human capacity,
both mentally and physically." -- "Hero Worship",... - Timothy: "How can you lift something so heavy?"
Data:
"I am an android. My strength is many times that of... - Data: "I have often wondered what it must be like to have one's mouth.
water in anticipation of the arrival of a confection... - Picard: "Data, I would like you to make Timothy the best android he
can possibly
be."
-
"Hero Worship", Stardate 45397... - Troi: "'Established parameters'? You sound like Data!"
Timothy:
"'I am an android.'" Troi: "I see. Well, let's go... - Data: "Timothy, androids do not lie."
Timothy: "It was.
me." Data: "Please explain." Timothy: "It was me. ...
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- Access denied.
Take a number and get in line.... - VIII. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
Laws of Computer... - The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
Charles... - There is hardly a thing in the world that some man
can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper... - Look before you leap.
--
Samuel Butler (1835...
