"We're at a point in time which is……" — 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."
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15 Quotes by Danny Hillis
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If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able…
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A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what…
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the…
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Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.
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If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you…
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Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.
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Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining…
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I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years,…
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The computers are in control. We just live in their world.
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An attitude of only taking what you need was built into the protocols of the Internet itself.
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What we need is a plan B ... independent of the Internet. [It] doesn't necessarily have to have the performance…
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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused…
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More Amoebas Quotes
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one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade…
— George Wald
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Amoebas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart And started Sex.
— Arthur Guiterman
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Amoebas are quite obviously widely spread protozoans and some of them have been established as causing serious disease in animals…
— Viera Scheibner
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Amoebas, once they have themselves well pulled in two, go their ways-they practice divorce, but no remarriage.
— Charlton Laird
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So often we talk about saving the planet, but what we really mean is to save the planet the way…
— Dave Matthews
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Why are you so interested in amoebas?" "Oh, they're immortal," he said, "and sort of shapeless and flexible. Being a…
— Margaret Atwood
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