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Quotes About Hive

Things get even messier when linked into networks, which can literally scatter one's mind even at today's rudimentary levels of connectivity. The "transactive memory system" called Google is already rewiring the parts of our brains that used to remember facts locally; now those circuits store search protocols for remote access of a distributed database.74 And Google doesn't come anywhere close to the connectivity of a real hive mind.
~ Peter Watts
They're Hive Monks,' said Nova.
~ Philip Reeve
Paulo plugged in the machine, which looked like the mutant offspring of a vacuum cleaner and a toaster oven, and showed them how to place wood chips in the bottom. Then he lit the wood chips with a long match and aimed the metal contraption at the opening of the hive. Puffs of smoke wafted around the hive and then blew straight in. Almost immediately the bees, which had been flying haphazardly around the room, raced back to the hive, and the buzzing inside grew louder and louder.
~ Wendy Mass
Welcome to the dawn of Aquarius, where every thought is an identical, hexagonal section of the Hive Mind.
~ David Archer
Something was jigging and worrying in his brain; it felt like a hive of bees, stirred up by a stick.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Venera spent much of that time as the queen of a buzzing hive of courier bikes, who zipped in from all six points of the compass to drop off and pick up dispatches.
~ Karl Schroeder
On one occasion Aliverdi Khan told his elderly general, Mir Jafar Khan, that the Europeans were like a hive of bees, 'of whose honey you might reap benefit, but if you disturbed their hive they would sting you to death'.
~ William Dalrymple
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)
~ David Levien
Beehive" Within this black hive to-night There swarm a million bees; Bees passing in and out the moon, Bees escaping out the moon, Bees returning through the moon, Silver bees intently buzzing, Silver honey dripping from the swarm of bees. Earth is a waxen cell of the world comb, And I, a drone, Lying on my back, Lipping honey, Getting drunk with silver honey, Wish that I might fly out past the moon And curl forever in some far-off farmyard flower.
~ Jean Toomer
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession - a hive occupied by generations of bees.
~ John Updike
Above the queen excluder—only honey. Below—honey, pollen, and brood.
~ Kim Flottum
But so far researchers have failed to locate lawyer bees. Bees don't need lawyers, because there is no danger that they might forget or violate the hive constitution.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Animals are loyal to a pack, a herd, a hive; human beings can choose which side they fight on. And the choice must be based on dharma.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
the grey haze of London, really beautiful, this vast hive of men and women who had learned at least the primary lesson of the gospel that there was no God but man, no priest but the politician, no prophet but the schoolmaster.
~ ROBERT HUGH BENSON
What initially drew him to anatomy he felt once again on this leafy path: the sheer abundance of life, the heat of it, the connection of things, the mat of roots under the soil, so like blood and bones, the wild potato vines like arteries, the honeybees' hive, so like a heart. If he could take one thing with him to eternity, it would be the way he felt right now.
~ Alice Hoffman
Most people don't have any idea about all the complicated life going on inside a hive. Bees have a secret life we don't know anything about.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Good news. Maybe the insects would handle it. Since the dinosaurs didn't have it in them. The insects might be naturals at revolution, with their hive minds. Their brainless, decentralized intelligence. That was the answer. Insects. Even more ancient than the birds. A formidable legion.
~ Lydia Millet
The Only Bondage You did escape the trap of elemental hive. But it is your own doing that is the ultimate trap Till you go beyond your own crap there is no way to break this trap. – Sadhguru
~ Sadhguru
What injures the hive injures the bee.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)
~ David Levien
Believe it or not the war on Iraq is based on a sound scientific principle, The bee hive principle. Which clearly states that if you are stung by a bee, you should follow it back to its nest and then proceed to beat nest to a pulp with a baseball bat until the stripey little turd has learned its lesson.
~ John Oliver
I would hate to be a bee. Be surrounded by bees all the time.
~ Craig Benzine