Robert Burton: Dr. Magruder

Quotes 

• [after a battery of psychological tests, Dobie learns that his results will be analyzed by a computer, and he refuses] 

  Dobie Gillis : No machine's gonna tell me what to do.

  Dr. Magruder : My dear boy, all the latest scientific advancement has gone into the electronic computer. It's a machine with no human weaknesses. Never makes mistakes, never gets tired, it's infallible.

  Dobie Gillis : [defiant]  It's still a machine, and I'm a fella. If anybody tells me what to do it's gonna be another fella, and not a machine... . What I'm after is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And I don't care how smart a machine is, it'll never understand things like that... . I'm not the brightest guy in town, but at least I got flesh and blood and feelings, not bolts and lights and wires like this monster. You let machines tell you what to do, the next thing you know they'll be runnin' the world. People will be obsolete. No thanks.