Quotes from W. Daniel Hillis

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.

Technology is everything that doesn't work yet.

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

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.

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