Danny Hillis Quotes

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• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi…
• 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…
• 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…
• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
• 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…
• Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.
• 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…
• 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…
• The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
• An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.
• 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…
• [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…
• 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.
• Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.
• A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to…

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