Danny Hillis Quotes

#1. If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke.

Larry Ellison

#2. I think as an actress, I prefer having a character on the page. It allows you to be more invested in actually creating a whole person. It's easier when you're not trying to come up with your next line on the spot.

Greta Gerwig

#3. A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.

Danny Hillis

#4. Kind are her answers, But her performance keeps no day; Breaks time, as dancers. From their own Music when they stray.

Thomas Campion

#5. Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

Danny Hillis

#6. I ain't never loan friends money; I give it to 'em and I don't expect to get it back. Even when he says, "I'll pay you back," I never expect it. If he gives it back, then hey, that's a feather in his cap, but I don't expect to get it back.

Mike Tyson

#7. You'll always be Kitten to me...Livvie.

C.J. Roberts

#8. [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

Danny Hillis

#9. What people mean by the word "technology" is the stuff that doesn't really work yet.

Danny Hillis

#10. Every lunatic is different. Every idiot is special, and might surprise you.

Sarita Mandanna

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

Danny Hillis

#12. 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

#13. If you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it [does] this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather.

Danny Hillis

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

Danny Hillis

#15. It's really important to have those people in your life who push you to be better, different.

Jesse Peyronel

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

Danny Hillis

#17. 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.

Danny Hillis

#18. I am convinced that we humans are just at the beginning of our journey, on our way to becoming something more wonderful than we can imagine.

Danny Hillis

#19. Our enemies are small worms,' he told his generals. 'I saw them in Munich.

Ian Kershaw