- Capt. Picard: [citing Shakespeare] "So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, so long lives this... and this gives life to thee."
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Geordi.
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: Yeah.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: May I ask a question?
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: I think you just did.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Quite correct. Then may I ask another question after this one?
- Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: You can ask me anything you want.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Why am I lying on the floor in this undignified position, with the four of you standing over me, displaying expressions of conc...
- Capt. Picard: I've heard more than enough. You're you again.
- Data-Graves: [from his eulogy on Graves] I can safely say, that to know him, was to love him. And to love him, was to know him. Those who knew him, loved him, while those who did not know him, loved him from afar.
- Dr. Ira Graves: [examining Data] Looks like Soong's work.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Quite correct, sir. Did you know Dr. Soong?
- Dr. Ira Graves: Know him? I taught him everything he knows. You could say that I was the father of his work.
- [laughs]
- Dr. Ira Graves: Which, uh, kinda makes me your grandfather, doesn't it, sonny?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: I have noticed, Grandpa, that you keep repeating the same notes of a musical phrase I am unfamiliar with.
- Dr. Ira Graves: Oh, it's a, it's an ancient little tune called "If I Only Had a Heart" - a plaintive lament sung by a mechanical man who longs to be human. It's his only wish.
- Dr. Ira Graves: I'm an incredible man, possessing a... an iron will and nerves of steel - two traits that have helped me become the genius I am today as well as the lady killer I was in days gone by.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: You condone homicide, sir?
- Dr. Ira Graves: Well, well, well, what have we got here? Another lovely specimen of womanhood.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: I thought you didn't like people.
- Dr. Ira Graves: Women aren't people - they're women.
- Dr. Ira Graves: I feel pity for you. Your existence must be a kind of walking purgatory - neither dead nor alive. Never really *feeling* anything. Just existing. Just existing.
- [he retches]
- Dr. Ira Graves: Oh, listen to me. A dying man takes the time to mourn a man who will never know death.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [after a near-warp transport] This might sound crazy, but for a moment, I thought I was stuck in that wall.
- Lieutenant Worf: For a moment, you were.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: [about Graves] He was working on bridging the gap between man and machine.
- Capt. Picard: Seems he built that bridge. I may be forced to tear it down.
- Capt. Picard: Graves... every man has his time - every man, without exception - but you've cheated. You have extended your life at the expense of another.
- Wesley Crusher: That was a great speech, Data. "To know him is to love him is to know him... "
- Data-Graves: Verbal composition at its most sophisticated level. Your childlike mind cannot appreciate the time-worn wisdom of my words.
- Wesley Crusher: "Childlike mind"?
- Data-Graves: When you get to be my age, you will understand.
- Wesley Crusher: Your age? Data, chronologically, you're not much older than I am.
- Data-Graves: Well, you are only as old as you feel. Try to remember that, boy.
- Capt. Picard: Data, something has obviously gone wrong with your circuitry.
- Data-Graves: That is ridiculous. I am as healthy as a Rigellian ox.
- Capt. Picard: I wish I could believe that. I would accompany you to sickbay, but I doubt if that would do us any good.
- Data-Graves: Sickbay? Are you ill, Captain?
- Capt. Picard: I'm getting there!
- Capt. Picard: You have no right to do what you've done.
- Data-Graves: I have every right, Captain! I am man, he is machine; there is no question who must live and... what must die.
- Capt. Picard: What of Data?
- Data-Graves: Data?
- [chuckles contemptuously]
- Data-Graves: Before me, he was nothing. Just a walking tin can with circuits for intestines. Pathetic! Without heart, a man is meaningless.
- Lt. Selar, M.D.: [on Dr. Graves' condition] What symptoms have you noticed?
- Kareen Brianon: He has pain, shortness of breath, irritability...
- Dr. Ira Graves: Ridiculous! I'm as healthy as a Rigellian ox.
- Kareen Brianon: He's not himself, believe me. His temper is completely out of control.
- Dr. Ira Graves: [vehemently] NONSENSE!
- Commander William T. Riker: You're not turning into a philosopher, are you, Mr. Data?
- Data-Graves: I am many things - scholar, artist, philosopher... lover, genius...
- [last lines]
- Wesley Crusher: And you don't remember anything?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Not a thing.
- Wesley Crusher: "To know him is to love him is to know him"?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Perhaps it is best that I do not remember. I trust I did nothing... unbecoming to a Starfleet officer?
- Commander William T. Riker: Does wrestling with a Klingon targ ring a bell?
- Capt. Picard: Mr. Crusher, take us out of orbit.
- Wesley Crusher: Aye, sir.
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: Did I win?
- Lt. Cmdr. Data: [to Troi and La Forge, in his quarters, looking at his reflection in the mirror] When I stroke the beard - thusly - do I not appear more... intellectual?
- Lt. Selar, M.D.: I am a doctor. Lieutenant Selar.
- Dr. Ira Graves: Uh, no offense, but I don't want you touching me in any way. It's no secret that I don't like people much, and I like doctors even less.
- Counselor Deanna Troi: That's funny. I thought most doctors *were* people.
- Dr. Ira Graves: Then you're wrong. Ask any patient.