Danny Hillis Quotes

Hyperloop One wants to make the world one, wants to make the world smaller.

I wish there was something where you could blink an eye and be somewhere. I'm a very nervous flier. I wish we could get from point A to point B instantly.

I'd like to be able to travel anywhere in an instant.

We can't simply dismiss the idea that autonomous vehicles are going to be a big part of our transportation system.

Hyperloop One will move people and things faster than at any other time in the world.

There has to be essentially a completely new regulatory framework for Hyperloop because it is not high-speed rail. It's not rail.

In the U.S. and abroad, there's incredible positivity towards Hyperloop. People are excited about it, and it's really begun to capture people's imaginations.

A carriage will start from Washington in the morning, the passengers will breakfast at Baltimore, dine at Philadelphia, and sup in New York the same day.... Engines will drive boats 10 or 12 miles an hour, and there will be hundreds of steamers running on the Mississippi, as predicted years ago.

My vision for the future of social transportation is one that places more value on information and community over a physical product. Move over, multi-billion-dollar high-speed rail infrastructure and welcome, social information-based solutions.

We're very focused on building the hyperloop. And the hyperloop is exactly something we've described as an actual tube with levitation propulsion and a vacuum that essentially vents around sky inside the tube flying at 200,000 feet. That, to us, is the hyperloop, and we're the only company building that.

The hyperloop will be a digital network. That's why we say we look at transportation as a new form of broadband.

By 2020, cargo loops should be working. By 2022, we should have people transport working.

With Hyperloop One, we are on the brink of the first great breakthrough in transportation technology of the 21st century, eliminating the barriers of time and distance and unlocking vast economic opportunities.

We created Lyft because we want to establish a radically different concept of personal transportation. We want people to think of transportation as a service enabled by technology instead of as an expensive and large piece of hardware to own.

You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke.

The fastest way to travel is to be there already.

We all exist in a time of widespread exponential growth. We are busier than ever.

Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time.

Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew.

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

At the present rate of progress, it is almost impossible to imagine any technical feat that cannot be achieved - if it can be achieved at all - within the next few hundred years.

to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other

The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating.

But the most reliable indication of the future of Open Source is its past: in just a few years, we have gone from nothing to a robust body of software that solves many different problems and is reaching the million-user count. There's no reason for us to slow down now.

In the modern world we have invented ways of speeding up invention, and people's lives change so fast that a person is born into one kind of world, grows up in another, and by the time his children are growing up, lives in still a different world