Solve the mystery sentence

Question

This sentence, from a story about an optimistic talking machine,
begins with a first person singular subject pronoun, then has a
cerebral present tense active voice action verb; it has direct
object which is a noun clause consisting
of a first person
singular
subject pronoun and a highly able singular present
tense action verb with no direct object.

Answer 1

I'm not an English major, but it sounds like you are describing the quote 

 

I think, therefore I am 

 

made by the French philosopher Rene Descartes, who by the way was also a mathematician and in fact our system of Cartesian coordinates is named after him.  

 

I had a co-worker once who had a cartoon in his office of a scientist sitting in a chair at a desk rubbing his chin and the thought bubble above his head read "I think, therefore I am paid".  I always thought that was kind of funny.  But it's true too, and it's good work if you can get it.