A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what… — 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
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![“[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)
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