Hod Lipson Quotes

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

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  Powder, Print, Materials

  "Can 3D Printers Reshape The World?". "Science Friday" with Ira Flatow, www.npr.org. June 22, 2012.

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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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  Profound, Effort, Way

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• 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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  Play, Car, Desert

  "Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 1, 2011.

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• Restrictions are difficult to enforce in a world where anybody can make anything.

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  World, Restriction, Difficult

  "Weapons made with 3-D printers could test gun-control efforts" by Michael S. Rosenwald, www.washingtonpost.com. February 18, 2013.

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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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  Simple, Thinking, Complicated

  "Download your own robot scientist" by Brandon Keim, www.wired.com. December 3, 2009.

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

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  Squares, Pieces, Cheese

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• 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.

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  Kids, Space, Looks

  "Digital Cooking: 3-D Food Printers". bigthink.com.

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• If you're talking 100 years, there's no doubt in my mind that all jobs will be gone, including creative ones. And 100 years is not far in the future - some of our children will be alive in 100 years.

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  Jobs, Children, Talking

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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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  Technology, Design, Enabling

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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.

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  Thinking, Recipes, Digital

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