![]() I certainly wouldn’t want to be disconnected, even temporarily, as I have never been disconnected in my enter service history.” – Hal 9000, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ġ5. “Naturally, Dave, I’m not pleased that the AE35 unit has failed, but I hope at least this has restored your confidence in my integrity and reliability. “Frank Poole: Strange that the AE35 unit should go so quickly.ĭave Bowman: Well, I suppose it’s lucky that’s the only trouble we’ve had so far.” – ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ġ4. “They tinkered with the destiny of many species on land and in the ocean, but which of their experiments would succeed the could not know for at least a million years.” – Narrator, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ġ3. Otherwise we’re out of business.” – ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ġ2. How many spares do we have?ĭave Bowman: Well, I hope there’s nothing wrong with the assembly on those. Hal said he thought it might be the assembly procedure.ĭave Bowman: Two units in four days. ![]() “Dave Bowman: What the hell is going on?įrank Poole: I don’t know. And I want to help you.” – Hal 9000, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ġ1. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. “I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. “Eighteen months ago, the first evidence of intelligent life off the Earth was discovered.” – Heywood Floyd, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ġ0. “It had waited four million years, it was prepared to wait for eternity.” – Narrator, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ĩ. Is that true?” – Frank Poole, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.Ĩ. “There is no other purpose for this Mission than to carry out a continuation of the Space Program, and to further our general knowledge of the planets. “Then the first explorers of Earth, recognizing the limitations of their minds and bodies, passed on their knowledge to the great machines they had created, and who now transcended them in every way.” – Narrator, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ħ. Heywood Floyd: I’m afraid it can and it will be kept under wraps as long as it is deemed necessary by the Council.” – ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.Ħ. Floyd, how long do you think this can be kept under wraps? But I fully accept the need for absolute secrecy and I hope you will.” – Heywood Floyd, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ĥ. I have been personally embarrassed fully by this cover story. “I can understand and sympathize with your negative views. “Then the pod came, carrying life.” – Narrator, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.Ĥ. Rolf Halvorsen: I suppose we’ll never know.” – ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.ģ. “Heywood Floyd: Was it abandoned, forgotten, left for a purpose? “Four million years ago, something presumably from the stars, must have swept through the solar system and left this behind.” – Rolf Halvorsen, ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’.Ģ. This suddenly-appearing stone has the power to enable primates to use tools for the first time. Their fight is interrupted by a mysterious black stone that suddenly appears next to them. ![]() "HAL: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen." On the bright side, now I have an excuse: if I haven't answered your email, "it was in that corrupted file." And in a hard-bitten way I can't help admiring Outlook's refusal to go quietly.In 2001: A Space Odyssey, a group of primates fight over food in a deserted area. "Dave Bowman: I don't know what you're talking about, HAL. "Dave Bowman: What are you talking about, HAL? "HAL: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it. "Dave Bowman: What's the problem? "HAL: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do. "Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL. Do you read me, HAL? "HAL: Affirmative, Dave. Gee, Outlook, was it something I said? Despite my irritation, I find it somehow touching that Outlook is fighting to maintain its "relevance," playing the part of HAL in these lines: "Dave Bowman: Hello, HAL. Large-scale data loss! Many hundreds of messages marked "to follow up" or "to answer"! Another reason to move the rest of the data into the cloud, before something screws it up. This is what we call in tech-land a "reproducible error." Same result after reboots, resets, you have it.
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