Danny Hillis Quotes

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.

In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portion of a day. You know, in the digital age, a minute is just a number. It's just 3:23. It's almost this absolute duration that doesn't have a connection to where the sun is or where our day is.

I have over a hundred clocks. I've got fancy clocks and clocks from all over the world that people made for me.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

You don't destroy what you want to acquire in the future.

My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.

I only look at things in a short term of a few years, but admittedly, I reevaluate what I'm doing, and whether I want to continue touring or not.

I want to do weird things and big budget things and no budget things. I don't have a five-year plan.

If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?

The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh.

America looks 10 minutes ahead; Japan looks 10 years.

It had a very long pendulum, and the pendulum swung with a slow tick-tock that set his teeth on edge, because it was the the kind of delibrate, annoying ticking that wanted to make it abundantly clear that every tick and every tock was stripping another second off your life.

Do you know what a balance wheel is?” She shook her head slightly. “There’s one in every clock or watch. It rotates back and forth without stopping. It’s what makes the ticking sound...what makes the hands move forward to mark the minutes. Without it, the watch wouldn’t work. You’re my balance wheel, Poppy.” -Harry Rutledge

I'm no genius. I'm not at all; I just happen to look five or 10 years ahead and think things through.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.

Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.

That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years.

Picture yourself five years from now. Where do you want to be? Remember that. Every day. That's how you'll get there.

I bought a clock, but the big hand broke off of it... so I just added "ish" to every number.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

We now have in our hands—really, in our libraries—the technology to feed, clothe, and supply energy to an ever-growing population for the next seven billion years.

History is like a clock, it tells you your time of day.