As an Aside Brain Droppings

Quality Assurance and Human Failure

Ash the Android (Ian Holm in the movie, Aliens)
Quality Assurance Failure, Ash was “just doing his job.”

ASH : You still don’t understand what you’re dealing with, do you? QA. QA is the perfect organism. Their structural perfection is matched only by their hostility.
LAMBERT : You admire them.
ASH : I admire their purity. Survivors… unclouded by conscience, remorse, or delusions of morality.
PARKER : Look, I am… I’ve heard enough of this, and I’m asking you to pull the plug.

[Ripley goes to disconnect Ash, who interrupts]

ASH : Last word.
RIPLEY : What?
ASH : I can’t lie to you about your chances, but… you have my sympathies.

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