Quotes
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Olag Gan : What are you trying to do?
Avon : Bypass the detector comp and use another of the systems to receive the signal.
Olag Gan : Can it be done?
Avon : Some of this technology is a little more advance to that which I'm used. I'm having to guess at some of it.
Olag Gan : What about the automatic repair system?
Avon : Oh, it'll do the job. Eventually. It's very methodical. It starts at the beginning and it works its way through. It's slow. You should appreciate that problem.
[Avon throws a switch. A whole panel shorts out and burns]
Avon : No, that wasn't the one.
Olag Gan : It'll take *days* to repair that.
Avon : On any ordinary computer system. But this isn't any ordinary computer system. A malfunction of that size would have registered on the autorepair. It should cut in about five seconds. Watch. It will be cutting in about... now.
[Autorepair restores the circuitry]
Olag Gan : [in awe] That is fantastic.
Avon : Yes, isn't it.
[Avon disconnects his patch wire]
Avon : As a matter of fact it is.
