Neil Gershenfeld quotes
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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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“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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“Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.”
-- Neil GershenfeldSource : "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.”
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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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“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 GershenfeldSource : "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 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.
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“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”
Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison-Wesley Professional
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“Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...”
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