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“Is it true, Dr. Chandra, that you chose the name Hal to be one step ahead of IBM?” “Utter nonsense! Half of us come from IBM and we’ve been trying to stamp out that story for years. I thought that by now every intelligent person knew that H-A-L is derived from Heuristic ALgorithmic.”
but—well, do you know the saying: Once is an accident; twice is a coincidence; three times is a conspiracy.”
Take a look outside and tell me what you see.” “Nothing unusual, for this part of the cosmos. Io doing its thing. Jupiter. Stars. Oh my God!” “Thanks for proving I’m sane. We’d better wake the skipper.” “Of course. And everyone else. Woody—I’m scared.” “You’d be a fool not to be.
