Quotes by Neil Gershenfeld - Page 1

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.
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Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.
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Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.
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Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.
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The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.
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We've had a digital revolution, but we don't need to keep having it. And I'd like to look after that, to look what comes after the digital revolution.
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You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.
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There is so much blandness and grayness out there, people want to be able to say "it's mine." They want to customize their cars like they customize a jeans jacket.
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Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple systems that appear to be complex.
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Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
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For a smart material to be able to send out a more complex signal it needs to be nonlinear. If you hit a tuning fork twice as hard it will ring twice as loud but still at the same frequency. That's a linear response. If you hit a person twice as hard they're unlikely just to shout twice as loud. That property lets you learn more about the person than the tuning fork.
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