Danny Hillis Quotes

• [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.

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  Motivation, Confused, Inspiration

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

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  Coffee, Orange, Consciousness

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• Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

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  Tecnología

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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 Internet itself as a communications medium. And I think we probably do need to pay some more attention to that, because it's actually kind of fragile.

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  Motivation, Communication, Inspiration

  "The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• 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.

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  Journey, Way, Becoming

  "The Wired Diaries 2000". www.wired.com. 1 de enero de 2000.

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• A human body is a conversation going on, both within the cells and between the cells, and they're telling each other to grow and to die; when you're sick, something's gone wrong with that conversation.

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  Health, Cells, Sick

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• Last century, when the beams needed replacing, carpenters used oak trees that had been planted in 1386 when the dining hall was first built. The 14th-century builder had planted the trees in anticipation of the time, hundreds of years in the future, when the beams would need replacing. Did the carpenters plant new trees to replace the beams again a few hundred years from now?

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  Years, Tree, Lasts

  "WIRED SCENARIOS: - The Millennium Clock Danny Hillis". www.wired.com. December 06, 1995.

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• Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

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  Ideas, Design, Difficulty

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• The computers are in control. We just live in their world.

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  World, Computer, Just Live

  "The AI Revolution Is On" by Steven Levy, www.wired.com. December 27, 2010.

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• 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.

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  Cycling, Knights, Broken

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• If transportation technology was moving along as fast as microprocessor technology, then the day after tomorrow I would be able to get in a taxi cab and be in Tokyo in 30 seconds.

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  Motivation, Moving, Inspiration

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• Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Medical

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• I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

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  Body, Silicon, Ifs

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• 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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  Motivation, Inspiration, Independent

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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 the amoebas.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Organisms

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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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  Attitude, Needs, Internet

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• Si oímos a un experto hablar de Internet y decir que [hace] esto, o que hará aquello, debemos tratarlo con el mismo escepticismo con que trataríamos los comentarios de un economista sobre la economía o de un hombre del tiempo sobre el tiempo.

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  Motivation, Inspiration, Talking

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• I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years. If I hurry I should finish the clock in time to see the cuckoo come out for the first time.

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  Hands, Years, Want

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