Neil Gershenfeld Quotes

#1. If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

Neil Gershenfeld

#2. The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Neil Gershenfeld

#3. 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

#4. I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how to report a story if it came up and bit them.

Bob Woodward

#5. 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.

Neil Gershenfeld

#6. The clearer the teacher makes it, the worse it is for you. You must work things out for yourself and make the ideas your own.

William Fogg Osgood

#7. you look down flights of stone steps, overhung by great pink tufts of valerian and

Kenneth Grahame

#8. 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

#9. No." Valentina closed her eyes. Of course not. "It'll be great, Mouse. We'll have our own apartment, we won't have to work,

Audrey Niffenegger

#10. 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.

Neil Gershenfeld

#11. Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Anthony Kennedy

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

Neil Gershenfeld

#13. There is an enlightened way to flow with, in, and through conflict.

Bryant McGill

#14. 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.

Neil Gershenfeld

#15. It is very a dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

Phyllis Bottome

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

Neil Gershenfeld