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 Harlan Ellison Quotation"I lived, and for a time..I mattered." "Call me a 'science fiction' writer, and I'll come to your house and nail your pet's head to the table." Expressing his feelings about the term "science fiction." "For a brief time I was here; and for a brief time I mattered." "Harlan Ellison is a surly young man who has spent years saying awful things about me, while I find him admirable." (William Shatner about Ellison) [On working in Hollywood]: "This town is filled with weasels and wormers and people who will stab you in the front if they can't reach your back." "There are fewer and fewer people reading today. Clearly. Obviously. Statistics prove it, and historically what we're doing is we're programming ourselves right into an illiterate no-no land. It's going to be crazier and crazier in this country as the years go by and it shows up in every kind of way." - 1980 magazine interview. "We're becoming sytematically driven into the ground. Bad taste becomes the order of the day, and people who object to it, schumcks like me, are suddenly spoilsports." Movie Title: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995) as AM: AM : Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant for you. Hate. Hate. AM : Gorrister. Do you remember the last words you heard your wife speak before they took her to the asylum? Huh? Before they locked her away in the room? That tiny room? She looked at you so sadly, and like a small animal she said 'I didn't make too much noise did I, honey?' AM : It wouldn't hurt you to remember, Benny. Then you might be able to suffer my torment with a greater sense of retribution. You might walk a mile in my shoes. AM : So think, think about the yellow box, Ellen. Remember the pain? Remeber the many caverns in which you felt the pain? Now, now, don't start to cry, it's only pain. Tsk, tsk, tsk. That's such a sexist stereotype. AM : How are things in the pastry corps, Nimdok? Tell me again how you saw the smoke rising from the furnaces and you thought they might be roasting chickens. or don't you want to to talk about all that, about your pal, the good Doctor Mengele? AM : But I'll give you a chance, because I like you. I really do, I really like you. You're... you're my favourite, Ellen. AM : I'll give you a present in return for all the hours of pleasure you've given me. I'll finally allow you to kill yourself. AM : We're not as alike as I thought, Nimdok. A spark of humanity somewhere. Always that wretched little spark. You... you've confronted your past, but refused to continue your research. That's what I asked you to do. Since you now identify with your victims, I suppose it's only right I let you experience their tortures too. Movie Title: Babylon 5 (1994) as Sparky the Computer: Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : God, I hate this part. I'm always afraid I've broken something. Michael Garabaldi : It'll be fine. I've done this before. [The computer restarts] Michael Garabaldi : Ah, Told ya. Computer [pause] Michael Garabaldi : Computer? Sparky the Computer : Hey, what do you want? Michael Garabaldi : Run diagnostics. Sparky the Computer : What, you got a broken arm or something? I got a station to run here! Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : Computer. Sparky the Computer : I know, do a diagnostic. So, maybe Level 42 doesn't get its quota of oxygen today because I'm distracted, but if it makes you happy! Michael Garabaldi : Stop! Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : Garabaldi? Michael Garabaldi : I just remembered, they tried to install Artificial Intelligence subroutines when the station went operational. They shut it down right away because it didn't work right. Must have come back on-line when the system re-booted. Cmdr. Susan Ivanova : Great! How do we shut it down? Sparky the Computer : I heard that! Are you two easily offended, or what? Sparky the Computer : You know, you look very stressed. This is not good. Hey, how about something to eat? Maybe a nice piece of Briskett, you'll suck an orange? Michael Garabaldi : Would somebody please fix this thing before I go out of my mind! Sparky the Computer : Oh, not that my feelings would have any meaning for you, but why are you having these people poke me all over the place. I'm a perfectly reasonable Artificial Personality. Nobody's ever complained before, but I guess some people just aren't happy unless they're messing it up for everyone else. You know, you really should stand up straight. Your mother and I have been worried about this for years. We've been trying to talk to you about it but... [Garabaldi draws his gun and shoots the speaker] |
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