Borderline Quote by William S. Burroughs

“When a virus enters a cell, it sheds its coat, and begins to use the cell as a factory to copy its genes, and…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Most people think of viruses as parasites, but they aren't parasites at all. An organism has to be considered alive to be classified as…

— Christian Cantrell

At long last, we may be returning to the original two-sided sense of the word virus, which originally signified either a life-giving substance or…

— Carl Zimmer

An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.

— James Lovelock

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have…

— Stephen Hawking

“A “better” biological virus — like a computer virus — will perhaps just make its host sick, but still well enough to keep spreading the virus”

— Peter H. Gregory

There is nothing so patient, in this world or any other, as a virus searching for a host.

— Mira Grant

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human…

— Jeffrey Kluger

“And then a strange thing happened. Out of the diseased and deteriorated pool os tired thoughts came life. A simple and poisoned life, but…

— Dave McKean

Our examination of computer viruses leads us to the conclusion that they are very close to what we might define as "artificial life." Rather…

— Gene Spafford

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

— E. O. Wilson

A virus has three purposes: to duplicate, to infiltrate and to spread from one host to the next. Ultimately, even a single virus can…

— Wayne Dyer