Neil Gershenfeld quotes

“Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.”
-- Neil Gershenfeld

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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.”
-- Neil Gershenfeld

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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

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

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“Give ordinary people the right tools, and they will design and build the most extraordinary things.”
-- Neil Gershenfeld

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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.”
-- Neil Gershenfeld

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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

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

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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

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“I have done scenes as Harvey Two-Face. It's interesting. I won't tell you exactly what we're going for, but I think that I can say that it will use all of today's technology to create this character. He's going to be interesting, and I think that's what makes this character important in the movie-you get to see him as he was before, as in the comic books. Harvey is a very good guy in the comic books. He's judicious. He cares. He's passionate about what he loves and then he turns into this character. So you will see that in this film.”

“An interface can be a powerful narrative device. And as we collect more and more personally and socially relevant data, we have an opportunity, and maybe even an obligation, to maintain [our] humanity and tell some amazing stories.”

“I interned at Miramax and subsequently at Paramount because I was really curious about the future of entertainment - how were we going to get films online? While the inspiration for Box didn't come from that experience directly, it was very obvious that bigger businesses had a lot of slow processes and cumbersome technology.”

“Computers no longer interface with humans--they interact, and the interaction will become steadily deeper, more subtle, and more crucial to our collective sanity and ultimate survival.”

“FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed - it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer.”

“I love sci-fi, computer games. I love any escapes. Give me them all.”

Source : "Alexander Siddig Exclusive Interview; The CAIRO TIME Star Opens Up About DEEP SPACE NINE, MIRAL, His Sci-Fi Obsession, More". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. August 9, 2010.

“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison-Wesley Professional

“Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...”

“There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.”

“I never took a computer science course in college, because then it was a thing you just learned on your own.”