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1 " As for HAL singing “Daisy Bell (Bicycle Built for Two),” this, too, was Clarke’s contribution, including the song’s gradual devolution to near incomprehensibility at the end. The idea originated in a visit he’d made in 1962 to Bell Laboratories, where he’d heard John Kelly’s voice-synthesizer experiments with an IBM 7094 mainframe, which had coaxed the machine to sing Harry Dacre’s 1892 marriage proposal—the first song ever sung by a computer. "
― Michael Benson, , Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece
2 " Yes, I’d like to hear it, HAL. Sing it for me. "
