- Reed Wahl: The Thinker has shown me so much. My outlook was limited before. Ballgames and stockprices, dollars and cents... Ha-ha! No. The numbers spiral out, they touch everything. Hidden within them lies a predictive algorithm for you, for me, for the destiny of the base allele to the stretch of a galaxy's arm... The Thinker is destined to give birth to that crystalline equation which determines all. I thought I knew its true purpose before. I thought Porter was the fool. Now I see, I was the fool all along.