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

- Neil Gershenfeld

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…

- Neil Gershenfeld

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

- Neil Gershenfeld

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 twic…

- Neil Gershenfeld

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

- Neil Gershenfeld

Uncertainty is intrinsic to the process of finding out what you don't know, not a weakness to avoid.

- Neil Gershenfeld

Chaos has come to be associated with the study of anything complex, but, in fact, the mathematical techniques are directly applicable only to simple …

- Neil Gershenfeld