13 Quotes by Danny Hillis

Technology is everything that doesn’t work yet.

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.

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

What people mean by the word “technology” is the stuff that doesn’t really work yet.

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

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.

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.

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

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