The X-Files Season 1 Episode 7

Scully: So the machine killed Drake out of self-defense?
Mulder: Self-preservation. It's the primary instinct of all sentient beings.
Scully: Mulder, that level of artificial intelligence is decades away from being realized.
Mulder: Then why was our government trying to usurp Wilczek's research?

Mulder: You're afraid of the government but you're willing to accept the risk that your machine will kill again.
Wilczek: The lesser of two evils.
Mulder: What about a third option. You created that machine. Now you tell me how to destroy it.

Mulder: I need to know why Brad Wilczek is the subject of a code five investigation. What the Defense Department wants with him.
Deep Throat: What do you think they'd want with the most innovative programmer in this hemisphere?
Mulder: Software.
Deep Throat: For years, Wilczek has thumbed his nose at any contract involving weapons applications. He's a bleeding heart.
Mulder: What kind of software?
Deep Throat: How much do you know about artificial intelligence?
Mulder: I thought it was only theoretical.
Deep Throat: It was, until two years ago. You remember Helsinki, the first time that a chess playing computer ever beat a Grand Master? That was Wilczek's program. And the rumor was that he did it by developing the first adaptive network.
Mulder: An adaptive network?
Deep Throat: It's a learning machine. A computer that actually thinks. And it's, ah, become something of a holy grail for some of our more acquisitive colleagues in the Department of Defense.

Scully: Some see genius as the ability to connect the unconnected -- to make juxtapositions, to see relationships where others cannot. Is Brad Wilczek a genius? I don't know. But I do know this for certain. He has a predilection for elaborate game playing. He has an intimate knowledge of the Eurisko building and he has a demonstrable motive for killing Benjamin Drake. The question remains. But if he is so clever how do we nail him?

Mulder: Could someone have hacked into the system?
Wilczek: Well, not your average phone freak, that's for sure. But there's plenty of kooks out there. Data travelers, Electro wizards, techno anarchists. Anything's possible.
Scully: Could you have done it?
Wilczek: Of course. I designed the system. That's why you guys are here, isn't it? I'm your logical suspect.
Scully: You don't seem too worried.
Wilczek: It's a puzzle, Miss Scully, and scruffy minds like me like puzzles. We enjoy walking down unpredictable avenues of thought, turning new corners - - but as a general rule, scruffy minds don't commit murder.

Wilczek: What are you talking about? I'm guilty.
Mulder: I know you're innocent. You're protecting a machine -- the Central Operating System at Eurisko.
Wilczek: If I'm protecting anything, it's not the machine.
Mulder: Then what?
Wilczek: After the bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- Robert Oppenheimer spent the rest of his life regretting he'd ever glimpsed an atom.
Mulder: Oppenheimer may have regretted his actions but he never denied responsibility for them.
Wilczek: He loved the work, Mr. Mulder. His mistake was in sharing it with an immoral government. I won't make the same mistake.

Wilczek: It's a puzzle, Miss Scully, and scruffy minds like me like puzzles. We enjoy walking down unpredictable avenues of thought, turning new corners, but, as a general rule, scruffy minds don't commit murder.

Mulder: In your opinion, how many people know the system well enough to override it?.
Brad Wilczek: Finally, the bonus question. Not many, is the answer.

Scully: Brad Wilczek? We're with the FBI.
Brad Wilczek: What took you guys so long? Oh, and do you mind taking off your shoes.

Mulder: This is what a 220 IQ and a $400,000,000 severance settlement buys you.

Scully: Must be for the visually impaired.
Mulder: How do you like that? A politically correct elevator.

Brad: They make me wear shoes all the time. What else do you want from me?