DISCOVER:  I CAN ANALYZE INFORMATION TO UNDERSTAND A CHALLENGE.

Would you like a jelly baby? Run. Jamie, remind me to give you a lesson in tying knots, sometime. You don’t understand so you find excuses. I think it’s time to find your Achilles heel, or should I say – flipper. I might’ve been saying something important. I was saying something important! Well, it wouldn’t be cricket. I am not a student of human nature. I am a professor of a far wider academy of which human nature is merely a part. I don’t like it. I am the Doctor! The original you might say!

DEFINE: I CAN PROVIDE INFORMED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIFIC TOOLS, INFORMATION, AND STEPS THAT WILL BE NEEDED TO MEET THIS CHALLENGE.

Yes, well, it’s a brilliant noise. I love that noise. I’ve lived for over 2000 years and not all of them have been good. Soon, I expect. Or later. One of those. Jo, you’ve got all the time in the world… and all the space. I’m offering them to you. Are you capable of speaking without flapping your hands about? Great men are forged in fire. It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame. Whatever the cost. Anybody remotely interesting is mad in some way. Aw, I wanted to be ginger! I’ve never been ginger! And you, Rose Tyler! Fat lot of good you were! You gave up on me! Ooh, that’s rude. Is that the sort of man I am now? Am I rude? Rude and not ginger.

DESIGN: I CAN GENERATE TESTABLE SOLUTIONS TO MEET THE CHALLENGE.

 

 

Excuse me, do you mind not farting while I’m saving the world? Your ideas are too narrow and crippled. I am a citizen of the universe and a gentleman to boot. I’ll tell you what, then: don’t…step on any butterflies. What have butterflies ever done to you? No idea. Just do what I do: hold tight and pretend it’s a plan. Pure mathematics can not lie! I am the Doctor! The original, you might say! Mmmmm…. An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one…. My last incarnation…oh, I was never happy with that one. It had a sort of feckless ‘charm’ which simply wasn’t me.

DEVELOP: I CAN IMPROVE AN EXISTING DESIGN BASED ON FEEDBACK.

I might’ve been saying something important. I was saying something important! Low tech? Grace, this is a type 40 TARDIS, able to take you to any planet in the universe and to any date in that planet’s existence. Temporal physics. Our lives are important—at least to us—as we see, so we learn…Our destiny is in the stars , so let’s go and search for it. Butterfingers. An unintelligent enemy is far less dangerous than an intelligent one…. Please tell me I didn’t get old. Anything but old. I was young! Oh… is he grey? Jo, did you fail Latin as well as science? Yeah, I came first in jiggery pokery, what about you? The Doctor. Nosey parker. That’s the trouble with regeneration. You quite never know what you’re going to get. I don’t like it. You may disguise your features but you can never disguise your intent. No. That is not the question. That is not where we start. Underneath it all I think you’re probably kind and nice, and very brave. I just wish you weren’t a soldier. Exotic alien swords are easy to come by, Aces are rare.

DELIVER: I CAN PRESENT A SOLUTION, ARTIFACT, OR CONCEPT IN FINISHED FORM TO ITS INTENDED AUDIENCE.

What do you think it is, a space helmet for a cow? There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things. Things which act against everything we believe in. They must be fought. You can spend the rest of your life with me, but I can’t spend the rest of mine with you. I have to live on. Alone. That’s the curse of the Time Lords. Safety precaution. I’m allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum. If the gas is present, the celery turns purple… I eat the celery. If nothing else, I’m sure it’s good for my teeth.

 

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It’s a bit more exciting when you go the other way. Have faith, Brigadier. Have I ever led you astray? You know how it is; you put things off for a day and next thing you know, it’s a hundred years later. The trouble with computers, of course, is that they’re very sophisticated idiots. They do exactly what you tell them at amazing speed. Even if you order them to kill you. So if you do happen to change your mind, it’s very difficult to stop them from obeying the original order. But not impossible.