Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. To be human is to be complex. You can't avoid a little ugliness -- from within -- and from without. You’ve never really faced death, have you?” “...No; not like this. I haven’t faced death. I’ve cheated death. I’ve tricked my way out of death and patted myself on the back for my ingenuity; I know nothing.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it. Leave bigotry in your quarters; there's no room for it on the bridge. One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present! We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human -- and maybe that's the word that best explains us. Do you know the old Klingon proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold — in space. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.’ …Message, Spock?” “…None that I am conscious of — save, perhaps, for ‘Happy Birthday.‘
They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. Our species can only survive if we have obstacles to overcome. You remove those obstacles. Without them to strengthen us, we will weaken and die. To all mankind -- may we never find space so vast, planets so cold, heart and mind so empty that we cannot fill them with love and warmth. You know the greatest danger facing us is ourselves, and irrational fear of the unknown. There is no such thing as the unknown. Only things temporarily hidden, temporarily not understood. Resistance Is Futile! It’s a — far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before; a far better resting place I go to than I have ever known.” “…Is that a poem?” “…Mmm. Something Spock was trying to tell me — on my birthday.