Heywood Floyd Quotes in 2010 (1984)

Heywood Floyd: My response is, we don't have enough fuel for an earlier departure.

HAL 9000: The answer is, "I am aware of these facts. Nevertheless you must leave within two days."

Heywood Floyd: HAL, who the hell is sending this?

HAL 9000: I'm sorry, Dr. Floyd, I don't know.

Heywood Floyd: Well, tell whoever it is that I can't take any of this seriously unless I know who I'm talking to.

HAL 9000: Dr. Floyd?

Heywood Floyd: Yes?

HAL 9000: The response is, "I was David Bowman."

Dave Bowman: You see, something's going to happen. You must leave.

Heywood Floyd: What? What's going to happen?

Dave Bowman: Something wonderful.

Heywood Floyd: What?

Dave Bowman: I understand how you feel. You see, it's all very clear to me now. The whole thing. It's wonderful.

Heywood Floyd: [referencing Discovery's schematic diagrams] Are these the power connections for all the control-based circuits?

Walter Curnow: Most of them, yeah.

Heywood Floyd: What other ones are there?

Walter Curnow: Well, all the environmental controls are fed with this one here...

Heywood Floyd: Yeah yeah yeah, but this is the one that feeds into HAL, right?

Walter Curnow: Right.

Heywood Floyd: Okay... I want you to install this little beauty... right about... there. Just inside the cable trunking.

[hands a small device to Curnow]

Heywood Floyd: I want you to put it where no one can find it without a deliberate search.

Walter Curnow: No shit?

Heywood Floyd: No shit.

Walter Curnow: This is pretty sweet... Non-conducting blade, so there won't be any short-circuits when you trigger it... Where's the remote control?

Heywood Floyd: If I trigger it. The control's in my compartment. Little red calculator? You've seen it. You put in nine '9s'. Take the square root, and then hit 'Integer.' In an emergency, even you could do it.

Walter Curnow: What kind of emergency?

Heywood Floyd: Well if I knew that, I wouldn't need this stupid thing now, would I?

[holds up the device]

Walter Curnow: Y'know, Chandra'd have kittens if he found out.

Heywood Floyd: Yeah. But he isn't gonna find out, is he.

Walter Curnow: Not from me. They could tear off my fingernails, I won't talk.

Heywood Floyd: Good. Install it tonight when he's asleep. If he ever does sleep.

Walter Curnow: How can you tell?

Victor Milson: So, here we are on your actual brink. My agency's going to become a part of the military, I've got a president with his finger poised on the button, and you want me to walk across the park and tell him we want to hitch a ride with those very same Russians. Have I missed anything?

Heywood Floyd: That's about it.

Heywood Floyd: I'd love a hot dog.

Walter Curnow: Astrodome. Good hot dogs there.

Heywood Floyd: Astrodome? You can't grow a good hot dog indoors. Yankee Stadium. September. The hot dogs have been boiling since opening day in April. Now that's a hot dog.

Walter Curnow: The yellow mustard or the darker kind?

Heywood Floyd: The darker kind.

Walter Curnow: Very important.

Tanya Kirbuk: You think I was wrong to send Max.

Heywood Floyd: Doesn't matter what I think.

Tanya Kirbuk: You think I was wrong.

Heywood Floyd: Yep.

Heywood Floyd: Reason? There's no TIME to be reasonable!