Quotes About Douglas

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.

At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner of

manicured grounds of well-hidden mansions. At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

Douglas claimed that in his New Salem days Lincoln "could ruin more liquor than all the boys of the town together"—a charge that was not merely inaccurate but singularly inappropriate from a senator known to have a fondness for drink—and Lincoln jeered that Douglas's popular-sovereignty doctrine was "as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

Good Night Sweet Prince and a flight of angels sing to thy rest.

For me, liberals are people who seek to use government to promote the general welfare.

Over the past four decades no reporter has critiqued the American South with such evocative sensitivity and bedrock honesty as Curtis Wilkie.

What's that smell? Dude, did you just blast the butt trumpet?

We Apply Different Implicit Rules.

I watched a lot of Douglas Fairbanks movies. He always played the same role with a mustache. Zorro had a mustache. The Musketeer had a mustache. Tarzan had a mustache.

Minnie had spasms of bravery, when well surrounded by the machinery of law and order.

The way to combat noxious ideas is with other ideas. The way to combat falsehoods is with truth.

But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

So I'd be quite happy to have a three-hour Lincoln/Douglas style debate with Barack Obama. I'd let him use a teleprompter. I'll just rely on knowledge. We'll do fine.

One moment I was sitting in your ship feeling very depressed, and the next moment I was standing here feeling utterly miserable. An Improbability Field I expect.

The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.

In my book, though, they should have changed Unidentified Flying Objects to Mysterious Otherworldly Flying Objects—or MOFOs. This name was more accurate after all. And I'd give my last dollar to hear TV reporters using the new acronym.

If I had to use a term other than UFO, I preferred another new term, UAV, which stood for Unidentified Aerial Vehicle.

Hard science fiction. Mind-blowing, breathtaking, hard science fiction.

wearing metal in his mouth

That's in the actual patent. Really! You can find the patent and read it for yourself. All you have to do is Google its official USPTA number, which is US10144532B2.

he had no time to waste. He guessed he had been out for as long as a few