I beat you this time Mr. Chips. You're really good at these video games, but I can beat you sometimes.

Of course Scooter, because I'm no smarter than the person who programs me. After all, I'm only hardware, just like nuts and bolts.

Oh yeah, you're the smartest pack of nuts and bolts I've ever seen.

Listen, Scooter!

You mean you're not really so smart, Mr. Chips?

Right, Scooter. I'm not equipped to be smart. I'm not equipped to think. I'm equipped to use software and process information, not to understand it.

What's software?

The instructions you decide to give me.

And how do you use software?

I use software, with my hardware!

Chips! So that's why they call you!

Precisely!

Gee, Mr. Chips, you have a great brain!

Brain? No Scooter, I have no brain.

Ok, but if you don't have a brain, how can you do so many different things?

Because of the different kinds of software people can feed me, scientists or secretaries; astronauts or accountants; managers or musicians; as long as it's put in a language I can understand, I can store the directions in my chips, and it's all hardware just like nuts and bolts.

You're sure a smooth talker, Mr. Chips.

Maybe so Scooter, but you're the brains of the operation.