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"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."
"There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology."
"I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm."
"But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him."
"We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain."
"My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures."
"My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes."
"When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience."
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"I've heard that, but since I'm computer illiterate I don't know how it all works. But since I'm on Prodigy tonight, I'm learning a lot through my typist, Peter."
"To me, there is something superbly symbolic in the fact that an astronaut, sent up as assistant to a series of computers, found that he worked more accurately and more intelligently than they. Inside the capsule, man is still in charge."
"Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s."
"After all, just one virus on a computer is one too many."
"I actually built a tiny computer as a junior high school project."
"If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available."
"Stories where the author has known very little, but run a computer program that tells him how to construct a planet, and looked up specific things about rocketry and so on, really suck."
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