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. - When Things Start to Think, 1999.
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This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
This problem, too, will look simple after it is solved.
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I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.
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That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
That thou seest, man, become too thou must; God, if thou seest God, dust, if thou seest dust.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Research is the act of going up alleys to see if they are blind.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.
