Daniel Hillis Quotes & Sayings

In some households you only have to turn up three times before you're expected to make your own tea, draw up a chair in front of the telly and call the cat a bastard. — Ben Aaronovitch

Technology is everything that doesn't work yet. — W. Daniel Hillis

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. — W. Daniel Hillis

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. — W. Daniel Hillis

Silence is better than a fabrication. — Tracy Anne Warren

Life sometimes sends out previews - but It never reveals the Surprise Ending. — Wade Rouse

Embarrassment, or the risk of it, accompanies all your important choices. — Roy H. Williams

In almost every technology area that we're ahead in, we're ahead in because the United States leads the world in computers. — W. Daniel Hillis

Your genome knows much more about your medical history than you do. — W. Daniel Hillis

And if things go on as they are, in a few months the men will have cut all the trees down and that will be the end of the bubblegum tree - forever'.
Nobody said anything. Billy thought that he had never heard such a sad story before. Surely somebody could do something before the bubblegum trees before it was too late. — Alexander McCall Smith

The reason they don't ask me when they're having kids, of course, is because men can, pretty much, carry on a normal life once they've had a baby. — Caitlin Moran

Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life. — Ruth Ozeki

If you keep wondering about how bad is your life, you wont be able to work towards its betterment. — Chandan Sharma

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. — W. Daniel Hillis