Danny Hillis Quotes

With 5% of the world’s population, the United States employs about a third of all the research and development workers in the world.

How are we doing in the electronics field as opposed to, you know, we hear how advanced the Japanese are? Do you think we're still pretty competitive? Oh, yes.

I'm a computer guy, and one of the things I did with the good fortune that 'Presumed Innocent' brought me was to buy one of the very first laptop computers. It weighed about eight and a half pounds, by the way.

I have to tell you that the innovation and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the world still lies in the United States of America.

I'm the one who made many of the bold comments that we'd seen the technologies from AMD as pretty good. Their technology in many areas was leading. But those are transient.

One thing about technology is that there's always a win, place, and show, and everyone else goes under.

There's no question that technology is extraordinarily competitive.

I think America has a responsibility to maintain its leadership in technology and its moral leadership in the world, to explore, to seek knowledge.

I'm a physicist, and we have something called Moore's Law, which says computer power doubles every 18 months. So every Christmas, we more or less assume that our toys and appliances are more or less twice as powerful as the previous Christmas.

I knew the Apple II was great when I bought it, but as I dug into the details it just completely blew me away the creative artistic approach that the designers had taken.

Every technological advance we've made in the 21st century and throughout the 20th has come from the United States of America.

Every company that made computers when we started the Mac, they're all gone.

On almost anything someone does in the computer business, you can go back in the literature and prove someone had done it earlier.

Tech companies tend to do tech best.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

After World War II, the U. S. Government made massive investments in the nascent field of computer science, both in research and in industry. In the 1950s it bought almost 50 percent of all semiconductors that were produced, thus driving down their costs until the private sector could afford to buy them.

It would be idiotic to position ourselves against Silicon Valley.

I started working at a point in history when digital computers were becoming mature, and before that, there were no such machines.

If it weren't for Moore's law changing the playing field continuously, I would have been long gone. The rapid pace of hardware evolution still keeps things fresh for me.

Most of my work may happen at a computer, but it's still a new and very exciting frontier.

We need to be at the forefront of technological development again.

To ensure that the free world continues to set the rules of the road in the global economy, America and its allies must work together to continue to be the world's centers of innovation and technological advancement.

I doubt that pornography has been good for the advancement of society, but I suspect it’s done wonders for the advancement of computer technology.

You saw Britain back in the early days of sailing ships. They were the sea power, the controlled the seas and they had colonies all over the world and then you can look at history and watch the way that their empire kind of crumbled. I certainly don't want that to happen to the United States in space technology.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.