A: Practically speaking, what is the best kind of worker?
B: The best? Probably the one who-- who-- who is honest-- and dedicated.
A: No, it's the one that's the cheapest. The one with the fewest needs... [Young Rossum] chucked out everything not directly related to work, and [in] doing that he virtually rejected the human being and created the Robot.
Robots remember everything, and think of nothing new. "They'd make fine university professors." Rejecting A's theory that Robots have souls, the psychologist Hallemeier admits that once in a while, a Robot will throw down his work and start gnashing his teeth. The human managers treat such an event as evidence of a product defect, but A prefers to interpret it as a sign of the emerging soul.
B rather inexplicably asks A to marry him. She accepts, but continues working to help the Robots by requesting that a scientist modify some Robots, so that their souls might develop more fully. One of the modified creatures is a Robotess, beautiful but useless. The scientist speculates that if the Robotess (named after her spiritual mother A) were to "wake up," she would hate him for making her so beautiful, yet giving her a body that cannot know love or give birth.
hahaha. okay. new motivation(s)! keep going keep going.
