"(Someone) offered an interesting theory that was that the computer didn't make a mistake, it was just incorrectly programmed. And when it reacted with jealousy to the threat to its misssion, it was reflecting the emotions of its human programmers. A computer would not have emotions like that, and so maybe it was not the computer that failed, it was the computer technicians that failed. I know that's hard to believe here in 'Cybercity U.S.A.'"
--Roger Ebert, Pulitzer Prize winning film critic
Let me put it this way, Mr. Amer. 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 defintion of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.
Sound: Courtesy 2001 I.R.A.Noted sci-fi design consultant got his start in the 1968 classic
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