Danny Hillis

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself…

— Danny Hillis

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

— Danny Hillis

What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance of the…

— Danny Hillis

Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was…

— Danny Hillis

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself…

— Danny Hillis

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in…

— Danny Hillis

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

— Danny Hillis

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

I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the…

— Danny Hillis

If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat…

— Danny Hillis

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

An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.

— Danny Hillis

I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful…

— Danny Hillis

The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

— Danny Hillis

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student…

— Danny Hillis