Language Quote by William S. Burroughs

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because…

— William S. Burroughs

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

— Jasper Fforde

Computer viruses are alive.

— Stephen Hawking

“The very word virus began as a contradiction. We inherited the word from the Roman Empire, where it meant, at once, the venom of…

— Carl Zimmer

The viral landscape is shifting and changing.

— Eugene Lee Yang

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

“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

“Viruses don’t just happen; people write them deliberately.”

— Peter H. Gregory

When computers rule the world the only virus left is humanity .

— Anonymous

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

— Mira Grant

God help anyone who messes with the Virals!

— Kathy Reichs

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to…

— Glenn Turner