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For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour. -- Margaret Chan
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
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. -- Stephen Hawking
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party. -- Lewis Thomas
The problem of viruses is temporary and will be solved in two years. -- John McAfee
I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like. -- Jonas Salk
Images contaminate us like viruses. -- Paul Virilio
Language is a virus from outer space. -- William S. Burroughs
I think computer viruses should count as life, -- Stephen Hawking
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man. -- Hubert H. Humphrey
Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses. -- Arthur C. Clarke
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it. -- James Lovelock
Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time. -- Maya Angelou
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die. -- Jill Lepore
Of course, screening for HIV did essentially eliminate the transmission of this virus by transfusions. -- Serge Lang
I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs. -- Barbara Woodhouse
The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied. -- Jeremiah Wright
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
As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat. -- Glenn Turner
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet. -- Laurie Garrett
Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin. -- Richard Dawkins
Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. -- Gore Vidal
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal. -- David Quammen
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
I wanted to play around with the format, really tear it to pieces and shake it up. For example, if Mitch saves someone from drowning, and that person then goes out and releases a virus that kills a million people. Imagine the moral implications of that. -- David Hasselhoff
I rarely use the Internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes, the lack of direct human discourse, all in an atmosphere of scam and hustle. -- Annie Proulx
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy. -- Paulo Coelho
Viruses don't just make us sick. They can actually sometimes end up in our genomes. -- Carl Zimmer
People's computers are not getting more secure. They're getting more infected with viruses. They're getting more under the control of malware. -- Avi Rubin
Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny. -- Nancy Gibbs
The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years. -- Ian Smith
To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money. -- Henry Rollins
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. -- Kevin Mitnick
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses. -- Paul Stamets
The Internet browser is the most susceptible to viruses. The browser is naive about downloading and executing software. Google is trying to help by releasing the Chrome browser as open source. -- Vint Cerf
Disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, floods, oil spills and radioactive fallout cause massive death of people, pigs, bats and birds. These disasters also impact the immune health of survivors. All harbor viruses. -- Paul Stamets
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
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us. -- Nathan Wolfe
In our interconnected world, novel technology could empower just one fanatic, or some weirdo with a mindset of those who now design computer viruses, to trigger some kind of disaster. Indeed, catastrophe could arise simply from technical misadventure - error rather than terror. -- Martin Rees
In terms of dangers, such as viruses, fraud or identity theft, I don't think we were thinking about that at all when we got started. If we had been worried about that, the net might have been better today, but we might not have even got there. -- Bob Kahn
Here at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, we have genetically rearranged various viruses and bacteria as part of our medical research. In fact, we have been able to create entirely new types of DNA molecules by splicing together the genetic information from different organisms - recombinant DNA. -- James D. Watson
We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble. -- David Quammen
I can't say I'm particularly happy about all the spam and the viruses and the equivalent that we see on the Net, but I think technology can deal with many of the problems that we're now seeing, whether it's filtering or whatever, and laws may help a lot. -- Vint Cerf
When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked. -- Morgan Fairchild
We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns. -- Nathan Wolfe
It turns out that viruses evolve from each other, like everything else. So if you look at the evolutionary tree of viruses, you can find parts of their genome that haven't changed over evolutionary time. You can recognize what may be a new virus by identifying this little piece of their genome that hasn't changed and is represented on the chip. -- Joseph DeRisi
It's a bit weird, because I don't really know what people expect or think being political is; I just don't get it. What am I supposed to do as a pop star-stroke-revolutionary? Get up and put my balaclava on, go to the grocery store and then invent some Google viruses, and then go to rob a bank to fund my revolution on YouTube? -- M.I.A.
Computer viruses are alive. -- Stephen Hawking
We really depend on viruses for our complete survival. -- Carl Zimmer
Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread just like viruses do. -- Malcolm Gladwell
Tobacco, UV rays, viruses, heredity, and age are the main causes of cancer. -- Harold E. Varmus
Bits of ignorance are like viruses that are copied and spread by interaction. -- Seth Lloyd
When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species. -- Wayne Pacelle
[Physicists] feel that the field of bacterial viruses is a fine playground for serious children who ask ambitious questions. -- Max Delbruck
When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying. -- Richard Preston
I am much more powerful today than the old programs and mind viruses that I absorbed in my childhood. -- Wayne Dyer
If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes. -- Robin A. Weiss
The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease. -- Joel Fuhrman
We've already seen digital picture frames pre-loaded with viruses; I'm not eager to have my refrigerator hacked or my alarm clock turned against me. -- Jamais Cascio
The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve very fast. -- Carl Zimmer
Islam has some of the best defenses against other god viruses and has the potential to be more parasitically aggressive when consolidating political power with a society. -- Darrel Ray
My ambition was to bring to bear on medicine a chemical approach. I did that by chemical manipulation of viruses and chemical ways of thinking in biomedical research. -- Jonas Salk
..she took pictures of germs, viruses, and people reacting to germs and viruses. On weekends, for extra money, she photographed weddings, which really wasn't that much of a stretch -- David Sedaris
With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important. -- Kristi Yamaguchi
To describe religions as mind viruses is sometimes interpreted as contemptuous or even hostile. It is both. I am often asked why I am so hostile to organized religion. -- Richard Dawkins
A strong feeling of adventure is animating those who are working on bacterial viruses, a feeling that they have a small part in the great drive towards a fundamental problem in biology. -- Max Delbruck
Harmful bacteria, viruses, calcium-forming micro-organisms, and candida are part of our world. Unfortunately, so are toxic chemicals, including everything from pesticides to car pollution to nuclear radiation to most municipal tap waters. -- David Wolfe
Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is infested with an aggressive strain of such invisible germs." -- Taona Dumisani Chiveneko
Terrorism, like viruses, is everywhere. There is a global perfusion of terrorism, which accompanies any system of domination as though it were its shadow, ready to activate itself anywhere, like a double agent. -- Jean Baudrillard
Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless. -- Dave Barry
The way that worms and viruses spread on the Internet is not that different from the way they spread in the real world, and the way you quarantine them is not that different, either. -- David Ulevitch
In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses. -- Marshall McLuhan
If you're looking for your own idea of your own identity you know the human genome may not be the best place to look for it. You're just looking at a bunch of viruses. -- Carl Zimmer
We may be sucking in all sorts of viruses and we really don't know the full range of them. Maybe we've got flu virus inside of us. That's a possibility. Maybe we're part flu. -- Carl Zimmer

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