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…

- Danny Hillis

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 depar…

- Danny 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 …

- Danny Hillis

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

- Danny Hillis

Design: holding conflicting ideas in your head without difficulty

- Danny Hillis

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…

- Danny Hillis

People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself…

- Danny Hillis

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

- Danny Hillis

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