Neil Gershenfeld Famous Quotes
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 Quotations
"Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other... you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship's truly meant to be."
Gary Harrington
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese.
Charles De Gaulle
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
Rich Kulawiec
Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.
Kin Hubbard
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.
Colette
The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom...
bell hooks
Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
E Joseph Crossman
"'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said. 'It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'"
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco