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• Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction.

  Seth Lloyd

  Ignorance, Spread, Interaction

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• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  David L. Katz

  War, People, Bird

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• We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Fighting, Together, Needs

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• If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Trying, Earth, Bacteria

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• Laughter is a virus that infects you with humanity.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Laughter, Humanity

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• Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.

  Alan Moore

  Successful, Mud, Arguing

  "Watchmen". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1986 - 1987.

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• The broken image of Man moves in minute by minute and cell by cell.... Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

  William S. Burroughs

  War, Moving, Men

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Naked Lunch: The Restored Text”, p.141, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that
  for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.'
  There was no satisfactory answer.

  Jonas Salk

  Preparation, Answers, Tetanus

  "Congressional Gold Medal". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. May 16, 1991.

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• Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Atheist, Mind, Religion

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 18, 2004.

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• Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us.

  Stephen Hawking

  Engineering, Design, Needs

  "Colonies in space may be only hope, says Hawking". Interview with Roger Highfield, www.telegraph.co.uk. October 16, 2001.

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• The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years.

  John McAfee

  Years, Two, Computer

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• Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Thinking, Hands, Years

  "Mapping Ideology" by Slavoj Žižek, p.1, 1994.

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• When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

  Richard Preston

  People, Dying, Feels

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• I can become a positive virus, a hope virus.

  Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

  I Can

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It seems likely that most if not all the genetic information in any organism is carried by nucleic acid - usually by DNA, although certain small viruses use RNA as their genetic material.

  Francis Crick

  Dna, Rna, Information

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• We've created life in our own image.

  Stephen Hawking

  Computer, Funny Computer, Computer Viruses

  "The Daily News" Newspaper, August 4, 1994.

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• I think computer viruses should count as life.

  Stephen Hawking

  Thinking, Aliens, Computer

  Speech at Macworld Expo in Boston, August 4, 1994.

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• Maybe happiness is like a virus. Maybe it's one of those bugs that sits for a long time, so we don't even know that we are infected.

  Richard Powers

  Long, Bugs, Knows

  Richard Powers (2010). “Generosity”, p.126, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Form is the host; content is the virus.

  Jeff Noon

  Host, Form

  "Portrait of the Author as a Vurtual Man: Jeff Noon talks to London Calling’s Tom Hunter". London Calling Interview, londoncalling.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Images contaminate us like viruses.

  Paul Virilio

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• The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

  E. O. Wilson

  Rest Of Life, Genes, Planets

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• Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates.

  Glenn Beck

  Ebola, Ebola Virus

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• The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Stupid, Mean, Government

  "The full story behind Wright’s “God Damn America” sermon". The CNN Interview, ac360.blogs.cnn.com. March 21, 2008.

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• Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has.

  William S. Burroughs

  Business, Mind, Atheism

  William S. Burroughs (1993). “The Adding Machine: Selected Essays”, p.16, Arcade Publishing

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• There's a new and virulent cultural virus ripping through the world. . . . The symptoms of those infected include attacks of optimism, strong feelings of community, lower stress levels and outbreaks of pronoia - the sneaking feeling that someone is conspiring behind their backs to help them.

  Jules Marshall

  Strong, Stress, Optimism

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