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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INNOVATION is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Essays, 1625.
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Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.
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Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
Every new idea is an impossibility until it is born.
