Carver Mead
Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years.
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Quotes
[edit]- The brain has this wonderful property — you can go through and shoot out every tenth neuron and never miss them.
- Quoted in T. A. Heppenheimer. Nerves of silicon. Discover, 9(2):70-79, February 1988.
- Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you.
- Lohr, Steve (2010-01-30). "Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
- The quantum world is a world of waves, not particles. So we have to think of electron waves and proton waves and so on. Matter is 'incoherent' when all its waves have a different wavelength, implying a different momentum. On the other hand, if you take a pure quantum system – the electrons in a superconducting magnet, or the atoms in a laser – they are all in phase with one another, and they demonstrate the wave nature of matter on a large scale. Then you can see quite visibly what matter is down at its heart.
- "An Interview with Carver Mead", American Spectator, Sep/Oct2001, Vol. 34 Issue 7, p68.
