"A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level."
-Ralph Merkle
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"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is.“
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"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."
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"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy."
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"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."
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"We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost."
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"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."
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"Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously."
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"I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them."
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"Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price."
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"But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space."
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