"Don't pretend you want to talk to me, I know you hate me."

"No I don't."

"Yes, you do, everybody does.  It's part of the shape of the Universe.
 I only have to talk to somebody, and they begin to hate me.  Even robots
 hate me.  If you just ignore me, I expect I shall probably go away."
 He jacked himself up to his feet and stood resolutely facing the opposite 
 direction.

"That ship hated me, " he said dejectedly, indicating the police craft.

"That ship?" said Ford in sudden excitement. "What happened to it?
 Do you know?"

"It hated me because I talked to it."

"You TALKED to it?" exclaimed Ford.   "What do you mean you talked to it?"

"Simple.  I got very bored and depressed, so I went and plugged myself
 into it's external computer feed.  I talked to the computer at great length,
 and explained my view of the universe to it, " said Marvin.

"And what happened? " pressed Ford.

"It committed suicide, " said Marvin, and stalked off back to the
 Heart of Gold.


	-From "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"