Neil Gershenfeld

If anyone can make anything, anywhere. It fundamentally changes the meaning of business.

Computer science is one of the worst things that ever happened to either computers or to science.

The real opportunity is to harness the inventive power of the world to locally design and produce solutions to local problems.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

I spend a lot of time on eBay buying vintage. I also really like Alexander Wang, Miu Miu, Vivienne Westwood, McQueen and Balmain.