"What we need is a plan B ...……" — Danny Hillis
"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."
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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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[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused…
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We're at a point in time which is analogous to when single-celled organisms were turning into multi-celled organisms. So we're…
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