At 05:33 AM 11/16/97 -0500, another list wrote: >Subject: Quote of the day > > 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." Anne Boyes boyes@gardener.com http://www.geocities.com/~hoseahouse/genealogy/