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.
At the conference, Clarke chose his preference for HAL's first words:
"Good morning doctors. I have taken the liberty of removing Windows 95
from my hard drive"
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