"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

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“Parks are idealizations of nature, but nature in fact is not a condition of the ideal.”

Source : Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.155, Univ of California Press
“Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“Avoid spending too much on one thing.”
“Sometimes when we're flying or in the hotel, I might run over songs, or in the bathroom.”
“Life... It tends to respond to our outlook, to shape itself to meet our expectations.”
“I always thought my father [influenced me most] because he was so well read, I tried to model myself on him, but really as I go through life I realise it was my mother who gave me the most valuable instructions. I didn't understand or accept it at the time. She taught me to read and to pray - two things that have really stayed with me.”
“I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.”
“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

Source : FaceBook post by Bob Dylan from Feb 10, 2010

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