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[Starting December 26, Headline News Space Science and Technology Correspondent Allard Beutel looks at the technological vision put forth by Kubrick and co-screenwriter Sir Arthur Clarke. In a five-part series called,] 2001: A Space Prophecy, ... 2001.


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We're not seeing tanks floating down the rivers. We're not seeing tanks cracked open.
ALLARD BEUTEL We're getting into contact with people. We're trying to take a head count.
ALLARD BEUTEL All I can tell you is it that it will have an impact. But how much of an impact, we just don't know ...
ALLARD BEUTEL We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.
ALLARD BEUTEL The program is being logical and looking at what can be done.
ALLARD BEUTEL We're still working to get in contact with our people.
ALLARD BEUTEL Overall, as a class, they will not be shuttle astronauts. They will be space station astronauts, tes...
ALLARD BEUTEL We are looking at that — what can we do for people who had homes ne...
ALLARD BEUTEL One step at a time.
ALLARD BEUTEL They're redundant in some degree but not entirely.
ALLARD BEUTEL We are looking at that — what can we do for people who had homes nearby, who want to work but don't...
ALLARD BEUTEL We are looking at that — what can we do for people who had homes nearby, who want to work but don'...
ALLARD BEUTEL We just don't know what kind of impact this is going to have on our schedules.
ALLARD BEUTEL The destruction of this universe would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK Sometimes, during the lonely hours on the control deck, Bowman would listen to this radiation. He wo...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE I have every expectation that the office will reopen by Monday, November 26, 2001,
TED KENNEDY A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe", a part limited in time and space.
ALBERT EINSTEIN If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by wh...
MATTHEW MODINE 2001 was a small step for Stanley Kubrick, but it was a giant leap for special effects.
JOHN CULHANE The partisanship surrounding space exploration and the retrenching of U.S. space policy are part of ...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON He has great vision for open space at the net. He doesn't just pick a spot, he picks a space. He loo...
DAN GREEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES In the space of three weeks, I met a fair bunch of the guys who were just starting those little prog...
ESTHER DYSON Clarke's First L...
ISAAC ASIMOV I just saw it as a big experiment,'' Ulvaeus told the New York Daily News in 2001.
THE ROLLING STONES For me the most moving moment came when I first started working on 2001. I was already in awe of him...
KEIR DULLEA After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks l...
NAOMI WOLF You don't rub 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
FRANK SHORTER From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it's d...
CARL SAGAN Standing beneath the white light of an Apple store is like standing on a Stanley Kubrick movie set. ...
WESLEY MORRIS Time is the worst place, so to speak, to get lost in, as Arthur Dent could testify, having been lost...
DOUGLAS ADAMS We believe PC demand in the last two weeks of December was terrible, leading to lower expectations f...
DANIEL NILES Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are mo...
MARVIN MINSKY Avalanche is a vehicle without peers, selling more than 379,500 units since its spring 2001 launch t...
ED PEPER A partnership with AOL allows NASA to leverage our unique content, people and facilities. Through th...
ANGELA PHILLIPS DIAZ If you look back at the last five years, from 2001 to 2005, it's pretty much been a disaster in larg...
JOE MILANO Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is my idea, and when I get to Congress, I'd be ver...
ED PERLMUTTER You don't run 26 miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secret recipe.
FRANK SHORTER Remember the recession in 2001? Now we're finally starting to pick up in the last few quarters.
JOHN CONNAUGHTON In 1980, during my sophomore year at MIT, I realized that the school didn't have a student space...
PETER DIAMANDIS Now that the labels are indicating that they are willing to give licenses out for at least some kind...
ERIC SCHEIRER I think the only guys who believed in it were the guys in the clubhouse, [manager] Tony Pena and [ge...
MIKE SWEENEY A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A ...
DWIGHT YOAKAM Basically, most good science in space flight has to do with the behavior of the human body in space....
CHARLES SIMONYI China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co. will step up the application of aerospace technolog...
ZHANG QINGWEI There were four major 20th-century science fiction writers: Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Robert A...
ROBERT J. SAWYER A decade and a half ago, the U.S. Air Force dropped massive 15,000-pound 'Daisy Cutter' bomb...
PETER BERGEN The federal government was seen as key toward innovation and technological progress, by defining wha...
ALLAN NEEDELL The chance of a deal now being reached that looks anything like it was first envisioned in 2001 is n...
AMY BARRY As social media is less about technology and more about relationship building, we are starting to se...
ERIK QUALMAN This is an exciting company, ... This is a leader in an emerging sector within technology. These guy...
BRIAN CLIFFORD The business climate in 2001 was marked by an extreme decline in memory prices and a very difficult ...
GEOFF TATE Space exploration promised us alien life, lucrative planetary mining, and fabulous lunar colonies. N...
GRAHAM HAWKES Space technology can and does fail.
BRUCE GAGNON The positive news in our view is the dividend... however, the headline net profit looks light.
NICHOLAS BYRNE The overall radio space looks similar to the way the Internet did five or six years ago.
TIM ARMSTRONG I wasn't a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or Blade Runner that...
JOE FLANIGAN In 2001 at this time of year, those hills would have been a sea of pink and white.
CLIFFORD HEINZER The dimension of the current Five Year Plan (2001-2005) ending on December 31, 2005, entails economi...
ABDULNABI MACKI I believe we can do more in making the President's vision for space exploration a reality by awa...
DANA ROHRABACHER they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think I set myself on a course to become a scientist around about the time that Carl Sagan's &...
ALASTAIR REYNOLDS All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.
ASH VAZ We're looking at Earth science, observing our planet. Also space science, looking at the ozone i...
LAUREL CLARK Space is an extremely important part of fighting modern warfare. What represents a threat, economica...
BOB WALKER In light of the lower results anticipated for the December quarter, we now expect revenue for fiscal...
FRED ANDERSON It's funny how "a part" and "apart" are complete opposites, yet only differ by a little space.
WADE ROUSE Clarke, define resplendent. I think it’s shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give ...
FRANK MCCOURT Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repud...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking u...
WHIT STILLMAN You'll all recall that there was the arrest of the shoe bomber Richard Reid in December of 2001, and...
FRAN TOWNSEND All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single lar...
CARL SAGAN I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent. My main purpose in life is to make money ...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Someday man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release ...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
THOMAS ALVA EDISON I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention t...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON What hath God wrought?
SAMUEL F. B. MORSE Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best. Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a w...
HERBERT SIMON The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played...
OSCAR WILDE Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of gen...
E. F. SCHUMACKER The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-clean...
E. F. SCHUMACHER The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
EVAN ESAR I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident and none of my inventions came about totally b...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON Each year, it seems, larger and more daunting mountains of text rise from the lush lowlands of visua...
CALVIN TOMKINS Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the bac...
CARRIE P. SNOW The cell phone has transformed public places into giant phone-a-thons in which callers exist within ...
MARY SCHMICH He is and will be a force to be reckoned with in 2001,
BUCKY LASEK This is a step toward a bigger vision. We want to show the city can maintain the space and make it b...
MARSHALL FOSTER In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned lan...
TA-NEHISI COATES Retain the vision for space exploration. If we turn our backs on the vision again, we're going t...
BUZZ ALDRIN The American and Russian capabilities in space science and technology mesh; they interdigitate. Each...
CARL SAGAN My interest in space started early, but for many years, I could not find any space-related investmen...
STEVE JURVETSON The Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
J.B.S. HALDANE A lot of people in the technology space love the idea of a solving a problem.
ANTHONY FOXX But Einstein came along and took space and time out of the realm of stationary things and put them i...
DIMITRI MARIANOFF If co-operation, is thus the lifeblood of science and technology, it is similarly vital to society a...
ARTHUR HOLLY COMPTON I've completed half of my space training at Space City in Moscow. I love adventure, and I've...
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ALLARD BEUTEL All I can tell you is it that it will have an impact. But how much of an impact, we just don't know ...
ALLARD BEUTEL We know there is going to be a schedule impact, ... We don't know what that's going to be yet.
ALLARD BEUTEL The program is being logical and looking at what can be done.
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