W. Daniel Hillis Quotes
Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.
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God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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I believe, certainly in the NHL, a player who can help a team win because he can contribute on the ice is going to be coveted whatever his beliefs may be or whoever he may be. That goes to national origin, religious beliefs, or sexuality.
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I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.
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Jesus got me through the slums without getting murdered. I just walked with him as though he were really there and not a spirit just floating around.
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I keep dumbbells in my trailer, and I work out between takes.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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I lived in New York for seven years, although I was always in denial about it. Even though I had an apartment there, I always pretended I was just visiting. I do love New York. But I'm a Londoner at heart.
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
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I'm interested in all things that Donald Trump does. I've known him since 1980. He's a good man.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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I like very much to put on fashion shows.
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Over the years, I've interviewed thousands of people, most of them women, and I would say that the root of every dysfunction I've ever encountered, every problem, has been some sense of a lacking of self-value or of self-worth.
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Something that I think I figured out slowly was if you're playing a show and there's a chatter or there is, you know, a lot of noise - people talking or something - I was never the one whose instinct was to try to be louder than them.
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My parents were journalists and friends with writers, artists, and just a really interesting assortment of people, so I was exposed to all lifestyles from a young age.
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I learned the first night that IHOP's not the place to order fish.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Ever since high school I've been writing in a spiral notebook, in pencil. Everything looks too polished on a computer when you start writing, and I can't really see it. I feel like the words are much more naked in pencil, on a notebook.
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It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies
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You just make different music on a computer. And you can make wonderful music on a computer, but don't pretend that the machinery is transparent. It makes as much difference to what you're doing as it does if you play an acoustic guitar as opposed to a kettledrum. You're not going to make the same music.
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If you wanted to build the most powerful computer you could, you can't do better than including everything in the universe that's potentially available.
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Building a computer out of any technology requires a large supply of only two kinds of elements: switches and connectors.
