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Quotes About HAL

Out in Hollywood I'm getting to be regarded as the 'redneck adviser.'
~ Hal Needham
The cooperatives seem to have ended with the advent of Europeans along the coast, Europeans who on occasion killed the cooperative dolphins. There
~ Hal Whitehead
I used to work at HAL, where I made 'Kirby' and 'Smash Bros.' After that, I became an independent designer, but I didn't have my own team.
~ Masahiro Sakurai
Ranger locked eyes with me. Please, he said. Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to please. I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay, I said. Be careful. He's insane.
~ Janet Evanovich
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
He doesn't look very smart," Diesel said. "He's not even giving me the finger." "Can monkey's do that?" Hal asked. Carl gave him the finger. "Cool!" Hal said.
~ Janet Evanovich
My instructions were to disable the car, but one of my men bet Hal a burger he couldn't get the engine out. So Hal removed the engine.
~ Janet Evanovich
Mean-Value Theorem for Integrals, 123 but for Hal's synoptic purposes here it's enough to say that megatonnage is distributed among Combatants according to an integrally regressed ratio of (a)
~ David Foster Wallace
It's going to be interesting to see if [sic] Hal, who thinks he's just too sly trying to outline Eschaton in the 3rd-person tense [sic] like some jowly old Eschatologist with leather patches on his elbows [sic], if Inc can transpose [sic?] the math here without help from his Mumster. Later. P.S. Allston Rules.
~ David Foster Wallace
Hal is maybe the one male E.T.A. for whom lifetime virginity is a conscious goal.
~ David Foster Wallace
and that the Academy has presently in residence no fewer than a third of the continent's top thirty juniors, in age brackets all across the board, and that I here, who go by 'Hal,' usually, am 'right up there among the very
~ David Foster Wallace
An unfortunate affair of the heart! He smiled grimly, dipping his pen. Perhaps Hal had a greater sensitivity than he'd thought, in so describing it. But then, all his affairs had been unfortunate, since Hector's death at Culloden. With the thought of Culloden, the thought of Fraser came back to him; something he had been avoiding all day.
~ Diana Gabaldon
In writing I search for believability, simplicity, and emotional impact.
~ Hal David
You're insane! Call me HAL and make me sing 'Daisy, Daisy'.
~ John Scalzi
In the future, search engines should be as useful as HAL in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey-but hopefully they won't kill people.
~ Sergey Brin
That probably means something to someone from the last century. The HAL reference also. The execs are always trying to throw in callbacks to their latest blockbuster remakes of once-great movies that have been rebooted to death.
~ Unknown