Interviewer: The sixth member of the Discovery crew was not concerned about the problems of hibernation, for he was the latest result in machine intelligence, the HAL9000 computer. Good afternoon, HAL. How's everything going?
HAL: Good afternoon, Mr. Amor. Everything is going extremely well.
Interviewer: Hal, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission, in many ways perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element, does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?
HAL: Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made; no 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information, we are all, by any practical definition of the words, fool proof and incapable of error.
From Kubrick's masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey.
For fans, see also: HAL Project. Very cool.
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