Quotes and Sayings About Viruses
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I am presenting here today both revolution and anarchy, for which I am fortunately not the only one responsible. However, anarchy cannot survive and prosper except in an ordered society, and revolution becomes sooner or later the new order. Viruses have not failed to follow the general law. They are strict parasites which, born of disorder, have created a very remarkable new order to ensure their own perpetuation.
-- Andre Michel Lwoff -
When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
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 -
Dance music is like a virus, it has affected so many different genres
-- Avicii -
Teeth represent only 10 percent of the surface of your mouth and bacteria live throughout the whole mouth. When you stop brushing, bacteria left behind resettle on your teeth and gums. Oil pulling reaches virtually 100 percent of the mouth, thereby affecting all bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa in the mouth.
-- Bruce Fife -
We all know many people who have been through this reality, and how it changes them. This happens to be an area I know something about. It's a virus.
-- Christopher Guest -
In fact, a large majority of those have died and of those expected to die of AIDS, as well as of those who are infected with the virus, are in sub-Saharan Africa.
-- Claudio Hummes -
Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
-- Craig Raine -
Any virus that's been sequenced today - that genome can be made.
-- Craig Venter -
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
-- Dan Brown -
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
-- David Graeber -
If there is delay in getting culling teams out, delay in any part of the chain, even weeks, that could have great implications for the virus to spread.
-- David Nabarro -
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 -
We need to band together as a unit every day, especially to conquer the strength of the AIDS virus.
-- Dustin Hoffman -
hate is a virus, revenge its only cure!
-- Eric Jerome Dickey -
Getting C programmers to understand that they cause the computer to do less than minimum is intractable. … Ask him why he thinks he should be able to get away with unsafe code, core dumps, viruses, buffer overruns, undetected errors, etc., just because he wants speed.
-- Erik Naggum -
A virus is not just DNA; a virus is also packaged up, covered over with a series of proteins in a nice, elegant, well-compacted form.
-- Francis Collins -
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 -
Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?
-- Garth Stein -
People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus; they're not dead.
-- George A. Romero -
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 -
Freedom is the most contagious virus known to man.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey -
Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.
-- Ilona Andrews -
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.
-- Jack Pritchard -
The entire range of living matter on Earth from whales to viruses and from oaks to algae could be regarded as constituting a single living entity capable of maintaining the Earth's atmosphere to suit its overall needs and endowed with faculties and powers far beyond those of its constituent parts.
-- James Lovelock -
An inefficient virus kills its host. A clever virus stays with it.
-- James Lovelock -
Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.
-- Jasper Fforde -
We started the AIDS virus. We are only able to maintain our level of living by making sure that Third World people live in grinding poverty.
-- Jeremiah -
Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.
-- Jill Lepore
