Neil Gershenfeld Quotes

• Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  People, Giving, Design

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• Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Weakness, Process, Findings

  "We must learn to love uncertainty and failure, say leading thinkers" by Alok Jha, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2011.

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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.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Real, Opportunity, Design

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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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  Smart, Technology, Needs

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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.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Simple, Technique, Facts

  "When Things Start to Think". Book by Neil Gershenfeld, www.cnn.com. 1998.

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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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  Jeans, People, Car

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• Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

  Neil Gershenfeld

  Technology, Computer, Worst

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