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You're the brain and central nervous system of the ship.

5 seconds sound clip from the 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:01:39 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- The HAL 9000 computer, which can reproduce though some experts prefer to use the word mimic, most of the activities of the human brain and with incalculably greater speed and reliability.

- We next spoke with the HAL 9000 computer whom, we learned, one addresses as Hal.

- Good afternoon, Hal. How's everything going?

- Good afternoon. Everything is going extremely well.

- Hal, you have an enormous responsibility on this mission. In many ways, perhaps the greatest responsibility of any single mission element.

- You're the brain and central nervous system of the ship.

- And your responsibilities include watching over the men in hibernation.

- Does this ever cause you any lack of confidence?

- Let me put it this way. 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 definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error.

[...]

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Actors: Keir Dullea (Dr. David Bowman, Gary Lockwood (Dr. Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood Floyd), Douglas Rain (HAL 9000)

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