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Quotes About HAL

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Did you take Joyce's engine?' 'My instructions were to disable the car, but one of the men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.
~ Janet Evanovich
Oh, thou hast a damnable iteration, and art indeed able to corrupt a saint. Thou hast done much harm upon me Hal, God forgive thee for it. Before I knew thee Hal, I knew nothing, and now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wicked.
~ William Shakespeare
But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.
~ Douglas Trumbull
Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001
~ Kubrick Stanley
One of your jobs as an embedded software developer is to firm up that line. The name of the boundary between the software and the firmware is the hardware abstraction layer (HAL) (Figure 29.4). This is not a new idea: It has been in PCs since the days before Windows.
~ Robert C. Martin
Every year, I have given Rs 20,000 crore worth of projects to HAL. But the previous UPA government gave just Rs 10,000 crore projects.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
After the success of 'Smokey,' my profit participation only went up on future movies I directed.
~ Hal Needham
Take a stress pill and think things over-- HAL in 2001
~ Stanley Kubrick
When he broke that commitment to art, to making beauty, to recording, to bearing witness, to saying yessiree to the life spirit, whose only request sometimes is just that you acknowledge you truly see it, he broke something in Hal.
~ Alice Walker
Hal wouldn't have done anything so...so...so sinful. Especially not on the night before he left for Central America as she claims.
~ Sandra Brown
Welcome to Shelter Bay,' he said to Stig. 'Is that what it's called?' Hal gave him a tired grin. 'It is now'.
~ John Flanagan
So we've written a saga," he said. "The Saga of Hal and the Heron Brotherband." "Oh Gorlog help us," Hal muttered.
~ John Flanagan
Who's Ikbar?" Ulf said. His brother turned away to hide a smirk. Gilan glanced at Hal curiously, saw he wasn't planning to answer, so spoke in his place. "He was an Arridan demigod, I believe." "Oh, don't," Hal said quietly. But it was too late. "And what did he do?" "Well, Ulf, I'm not sure that he did too much of anything," Gilan said. "Just paraded round being a demigod.
~ John Flanagan
Hope we didn't break it," Edvin muttered. Hal shrugged. "It's not our bridge.
~ John Flanagan
Edvin!' Hal yelled. 'Help me!
~ John Flanagan
Missed," Hal said, for Ingvar's benefit. The big boy grunted. "Hit it this time.
~ John Flanagan
That's a snug fit," Thorn said. "What did you line it with?" "Oh, leather and some sheepskin," Hal said distractedly. He failed to notice Thorn's sharp look as he said sheepskin.
~ John Flanagan
Dassault could not progress in the negotiations with HAL because if the aircraft were to be produced in India, a guarantee for the product to be produced was to be given. It is a big ticket item, and the IAF would want the guarantee for the jets. HAL was in no position to give the guarantee.
~ Nirmala Sitharaman
Turing had pointed out that, if one could carry out a prolonged conversation with a machine—whether by typewriter or microphones was immaterial—without being able to distinguish between its replies and those that a man might give, then the machine was thinking, by any sensible definition of the word. Hal could pass the Turing test with ease. The
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became operational at the Hal Plant in Urbana, Illinois, on January 12, 1997.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Hal in full control of the ship. The
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Good morning, Dr. Chandra. This is Hal. I am ready for my first lesson." There
~ Arthur C. Clarke