Open The Pod Bay Doors, Hal.

'2001' Was Written In An Age Which Now Lies Beyond One Of The Great Divides In Human History; We Are Sundered From It Forever By The Moment When Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin Stepped Out On To The Sea Of Tranquility. Now History And Fiction Have Become Inexorably Intertwined.

The Truth, As Always, Will Be Far Stranger.

Sometimes A Decision Has To Be Made By A Single Individual, Who Has The Authority To Enforce It. That's Why You Need A Captain. You Can't Run A Ship By A Committee-at Least Not All The Time.

As His Body Became More And More Defenseless, So His Means Of Offense Became Steadily More Frightful.

Creationism, Perhaps The Most Pernicious Of The Intellectual Perversions Now Afflicting The American Public.