2001 Hal Quotes & Sayings

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

I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two. — O.R. Melling

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers. — William Tecumseh Sherman

I often say that managers of creative enterprises must hold lightly to goals and firmly to intentions. What does that mean? It means that we must be open to having our goals change as we learn new information or are surprised by things we thought we knew but didn't. As long as our intentions - our values - remain constant, our goals can shift as needed. — Ed Catmull

There aren't any differences... God sees all people the same! — Deyth Banger

The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean. — Ma Jun

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

Take a stress pill and think things over
HAL in 2001 — Stanley Kubrick