IP: Fun time -- Quote of the day (fwd)

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Writer Arthur C. Clarke was participating in a panel discussion via the
Internet as a part of Cyberfest '97.  This was held at the University of
Illinois at Urbana, the "birthplace" of HAL 9000, the intelligent,
self-aware computer in his novel 2001:A Space Odyssey.


At the conference, which included a competition to write HAL's first
words, Clarke offered his preference for HAL's first spoken sentence.


"Good morning doctors.  I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95
from my hard drive."


    Submitted by: Terry Labach
                  Oct. 17, 1997
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