human
For untold thousands of years the human race has spent its best efforts to reach the goal of perfection without achieving it. Now you propose to assemble all the money in the world, and all the brains and say: give us a perfect man! The United States Space Command demands him!
gpt
Exactly. General Oglethorpe's face hardened as he returned Paul's steady gaze.
human
No other technical problem has been able to stand before such an attack. There is no reason why this one should. And the problem _must_ be solved, or we're going to have to abandon space just as we stand on the frontier, getting our first real glimpse of it.
gpt
That's the way you operated when I set up your basic personnel program five years ago. It didn't work then; it won't work now.