Home / Quotes / Quote by Danny Hillis

Quote by Danny Hillis

“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.”

Quote by Danny Hillis

Author

Danny Hillis is a renowned inventor born on September 25, 1956. He has made significant contributions to computer science, artificial intelligence, and robotics. Hillis is known for his innovations in parallel computing and the design of large-scale parallel systems. more

You May Also Like

“HIV brings out the best and the worst in humanity, and the laws reflect these attitudes.”

Inspiration Law Motivation Humanity Attitude Worst Hiv

Author:Shereen El Feki

“Life is not an on and off switch. You don't have to have a military that is either in hard combat or is in the barracks.”

Hard Inspiration Life Is Motivation Military Combat And Off

Author:James G. Stavridis

“Songwriters can sort of get away with murder. You can throw out crazy theories and not have to back it up with data or graphs or research.”

Inspiration Motivation Crazy Theory Research Murder Data Get Away Songwriters Graphs

Author:Andrew Bird

“Cars are not a suit of clothes; cars are an avatar. Cars are an expansion of yourself: they take your thoughts, your ideas, your emotions, and they multiply it.”

Ideas Inspiration Motivation Emotion Car Clothes Suits Expansion

Author:Chris Bangle

“By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.”

World Done Inspiration Able Motivation Creation Leaving Connected Oil Resilient

Author:Rob Hopkins

“It is this breathtaking image [of] success that motivates us and motivates kids to follow and understand rocket science: to understand the importance of physics and math and, in many ways, to have that awe at exploration of the frontiers of the unknown.”

Way Inspiration Kids Motivation Importance Math Physics Awe Exploration Frontiers Rockets Breathtaking Rocket Science

Author:Steve Jurvetson

“The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.”

Inspiration Motivation Language One Thing Mathematics Geometry

Author:Marcus du Sautoy

“If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.”

Ifs Needs Inspiration Earth Motivation Fall Energy Percent Sunlight

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“It's very fashionable to talk about human trafficking, in this fantastic A-C hall. It's very nice for discussion, discourse, making films and everything. But it is not nice to bring them to our homes. It's not nice to give them employment in our factories, our companies. It's not nice for our children to study with their children. There it ends. That's my biggest challenge.”

“Modern language must be older than the cave paintings and cave engravings and cave sculptures and dance steps in the soft clay in the caves in Western Europe, in the Aurignacian Period some 35,000 years ago, or earlier. I can't believe they did all those things and didn't also have a modern language.”