Hod Lipson quotes

Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything. (Hod Lipson)

If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.

Hod Lipson

We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.

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Basically, any material you can squeeze, melt or generate into a powder, you can print.

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When it costs you the same amount of manufacturing effort to make advanced robotic parts as it does to manufacture a paperweight, that really changes things in a profound way.

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We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

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A hexagonal piece of cheese is a lot better than a square piece of cheese.

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Similar to computer technology in the '60s, 3-D printing is a universal technology that has the potential to revolutionize our life by enabling individuals to design and manufacture things.

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I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.

Hod Lipson

The only way to make something cheaply today is to have it mass-produced. For example, you wear the same shoes as everyone else. If you had a fabber, you could custom-make shoes that perfectly fit your feet. Three-dimensional printing will help us move away from the mass consumption that is so deeply ingrained in our culture.

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3D printing is already shaking our age-old notions of what can and can't be made. (Hod Lipson)

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Occupation: American Scientist
Born: 1967
Quotes count: 11