The Invisible Boy (1957)

Philip Abbott: Dr. Tom Merrinoe

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• Dr. Tom Merrinoe : As a matter of fact, I had an exceptionally full, stimulating if I may say so, usful day at the computer.

• Timmie : What's a computer?

  Dr. Tom Merrinoe : ...simply an electronic adding-and-remembering machine... a completely accurate and lighning-fast idiot with a lead pencil.

• Dr. Tom Merrinoe : He's already ten years old, and he can't even play a decent game of chess.

• Dr. Tom Merrinoe : In order to equal the number of neuronic circuits in my own cerebral cortex we'd be obliged to build something slightly larger than the planet Jupiter.

• [last lines] 

  Robby the Robot : Pardon me, sir. My basic directive.

  Dr. Tom Merrinoe : Have an apple, Timmie. - Robbie.

• Dr. Tom Merrinoe : Now, how many 24th are there in one and a quarter?

  Timmie : Three? Seventeen? Forty-four? A hundred?

• [first lines] 

  Dr. Tom Merrinoe : General Swayne! Certainly didn't expect to see you in person.

  Gen. Swayne : Thought I'd be my own messenger boy this time.