I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built.… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head.… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange. — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it. — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with… — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're the amoebas. — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself. — Danny Hillis Copy Share Image
![“What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the Internet, but the police department has to be able to call up the fire department.” quote by Danny Hillis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/da9/danny-hillis-33289_able_what-we-need-is-a-plan-b-independent-of_324847.jpg)
![“People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium. [We] need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.” quote by Danny Hillis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2ea/danny-hillis-33289_attention_people-are-mostly-focused-on-defending-t_582455.jpg)
![“[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.” quote by Danny Hillis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/bee/danny-hillis-33289_analogies_language-is-really-a-pretty-amazing-inve_753389.jpg)
![“If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.” quote by Danny Hillis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d0/danny-hillis-33289_comment_if-you-hear-an-expert-talking-about-the_2591732.jpg)
