A.C. Clarke proposes for HAL 9000

["George J.P. Perry" <geoperry@iww.org>]

  [Forwards blown out the air-lock]
  
    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.
  
    "I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95 from my hard drive."