Supernerd Quotes in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)

[Professor Hobby asks Mecha, Secretary Sheila, what is love]

Professor Hobby: Tell me. What is love?

Secretary: Love is first widening my eyes a little bit... and quickening my breathing a little... and warming my skin and touching my...

Professor Hobby: And so on. Exactly so. Thank you, Sheila.

Professor Hobby: [the group claps] But I wasn't referring to sensuality stimulators. The word that I used was 'love.' Love like the love of a child for it's parents. I propose that we build a robot child who can love. A child robot who will genuinely love... the parent, or parents it imprints on... with a love that will never end.

Supernerd: A child-substitute Mecha?

Professor Hobby: But a Mecha with a mind, with neuronal feedback. You see, what I'm suggesting is that love will be the key... by which they acquire a kind of subconscious never before achieved. An inner world of metaphor, intuition, a self-motivated reasoning, of dreams.