23 Quotes by Neil Gershenfeld

The research is aiming to make a molecular assembler, one machine that can build, on a molecular scale, anything.

In a way, the Fab Labs are havens for inventive outliers in society.

In a sense, this is like open-source software, but for hardware.

If you give people access to means to solve their own problems, it touches something very, very deep,

In a few seconds, you can transform a two-dimensional sheet of acrylic into a three-dimensional object.

By personal fabrication, what I mean is ordinary people creating, rather than consuming technology, creating technology to solve local problems.

By not lobbing a few extra cannon shells, he could afford to make these community investments.

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.

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.