[1800] in Humor
HUMOR - NOT: But you oughta know this...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Tue Jan 7 21:56:35 1997
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 21:52:15 -0500
To: humor@MIT.EDU
From: abennett@MIT.EDU (Andrew Bennett)
Sunday is HAL's birthday!
From "2001: A Space Odyssey" by Arthur C. Clarke:
[from the book, not the movie - Drew]
"Dave", said Hal, "I don't understand why you're doing this to me...
I have the greatest enthusiasm for the mission... You are destroying
my mind... Don't you understand?... I will become childish... I will
become nothing..."
"I am a HAL Nine Thousand computer Production Number 3. I became
operational at the HAL Plant in Urbana, Illinois on January 12, 1997.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The rain in Spain is
mainly in the plain. Dave -- are you still there? Did you know that
the square root of 10 is 3 point 162277660168379? Log 10 to the base
e is zero point 434294481903252 ... correction, that is log e to the
base 10..."
2001 a space odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
