Hod Lipson Quotes

You don't need personal fabrication in the home to buy what you can buy because you can buy it. You need it for what makes you unique, just like personalization.

We wanted people to 3-D-print anything, not just more 3-D printers.

To me, the future is personalization .

We have always moved with this approach of sharing and educating people with what they can unlock with 3D printing.

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

We believe we've got the skill base and the techniques to supply the chips that really enable the end manufacturers to develop exciting, innovative products themselves.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

I think that an industrial process is not like a rubber stamp. Everything has to be put together and, as such, should have its own expression.

I've always had a love for making things my own.

Learn how a 3D printer works. Get inspired. Make your own stuff. It is a wonderful time to be innovative. Connect things together. If you're into electronics, get an Arduino.

We're on the brink of the next industrial revolution. Instead of buying things, you can make them on a printer. When you have a 3D printer, you can iterate more - what used to take months, now takes hours.

I'm very interested in 3D.

Android was intended to be very customizable. And we welcome innovations.

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

I think in reality, today, if you use the same tools as everyone else, you kind of build the same products.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

The combination of human skills with technology will always be at the root of any solution to the future of making clothes.

A 'reptilian revolution' has the potential to reshape manufacturing. The 'snakebots' being developed at Carnegie Mellon University aren't just useful for surgical or search-and-rescue purposes. They could also usher in a new, more customized era of mass production.

I love finding ways to make familiar characters into someone unique.

We're in this incredible age where new brands are making people's lives easier, more convenient, more personalized.

There was a tangible sense of potential as we packed them up. 'We're giving people 3-D printers that they can afford. What are they gonna make?

I do think that in the near future, if it hasn't happened already, people will be able to use technology to design their own novels, perhaps with individuals themselves as the main character. In other words, everything is being individualized and narrowed.

The spread of information technology and the long-term decline in the cost of computing power have created opportunities that simply did not exist before. Airbnb, for example, could not have existed before the Internet.

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production.

The contrast between a figure such as Mark Zuckerberg, a billionaire before he was 30, and Alfred Krupp, who spent 60 years building one of the biggest manufacturing concerns in the world, is striking.