Neil Gershenfeld Quotes
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
-
There's nothing unnatural in creation.
-
Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
-
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
-
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
-
Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
-
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
-
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
-
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
-
I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
-
You need tremendous spirituality to stop yourself falling into the abyss.
-
My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
-
Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
-
I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
-
One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.
-
Home is where one starts from.
-
Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.
-
When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
-
Choose something you are passionate about - or a pain point that has affected you and that you feel really needs to be changed.
-
I was a pretty lousy bass player. But the band I was in couldn't find a bass player in our small town and it was more important to have a bass than keyboards, so that's what I did.
-
I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.
-
If I had a dream, it would be that most of the countries in the world, and especially in Europe and the U.S... have more alignment on a set of principles of tax and economic reform that would create an environment that would be more consistent first, definitely more stable.
-
Success is somebody else's failure. Success is the American Dream we can keep dreaming because most people in most places, including thirty million of ourselves, live wide awake in the terrible reality of poverty.
-
Fungible goods in economics can be extended and traded. So, half as much grain is half as much useful, but half a baby or half a computer is less useful than a whole baby or a whole computer, and we've been trying to make computers that work that way.
