With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. Without followers, evil cannot spread. 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. One man cannot summon the future. But one man can change the present! I speak of rights! A machine has none; a man must. If you do not grant him that right, you have brought us down to the level of the machine; indeed, you have elevated that machine above us! Do you know the old Klingon proverb that revenge is a dish best served cold? It is very cold — in space. 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….
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis. Did Einstein, Kazanga or Sitar of Vulcan produce new and revolutionary theories on a regular schedule? You can't simply say, 'Today I will be brilliant.' To be human is to be complex. You can't avoid a little ugliness -- from within -- and from without. Nuclear Wessels! 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.
You may find that having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. This is not logical, but it is often true. Live now; make now always the most precious time. Now will never come again. They used to say that if Man was meant to fly, he'd have wings. But he did fly. He discovered he had to. When the personality of a human is involved, exact predictions are hazardous. Khaaannnn!