AI amusements: my favorite marvin

Solve this acrostic puzzle by filling answers to the clues on the left into the dashed spaces to the right. Copying the letter above each numbered space into the same-numbered space in the grid above will yield a quotation from a work whose title and author will be spelled out in the first letter of each of your answers. Words are separated in the quotation grid by black squares, and as such may wrap between grid rows.