It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid. Curious, how often you humans manage to obtain that which you do not want. One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present! We're a most promising species, Mr. Spock, as predators go. Did you know that? I frequently have my doubts. I don't. Not any more. And maybe in a thousand years or so, we'll be able to prove it. A lie is a very poor way to say hello. 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. Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross; but it's not for the timid. What makes one man an exceptional leader? We see indications that it's his negative side which makes him strong, that his evil side, controlled and disciplined, is vital to his strength. Your negative side removed from you, the power of command begins to elude you. Perhaps man wasn't meant for paradise. Maybe he was meant to claw, to scratch all the way. When a child is taught, it's programmed with simple instructions, and at some point, if its mind develops properly, it exceeds the sum of what it was taught, thinks independently. A lie is a very poor way to say hello. It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned. Do you know the old Klingon proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold — in space. No, Kirk, no. You’ll not escape. From hell’s heart, I stab at thee. …For spite’s sake, I spit my last breath at thee.
Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on. Change is the essential process of all existence. Live Long and Prosper. I’ve done far worse than kill you. …I’ve hurt you; and I intend to go on… hurting you. I will leave you as you left me; as you left her. Marooned for all eternity at the center of a dead planet. …Buried alive; buried alive…. 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.