Quote by K. Eric Drexler Download Open image ““Standard engineering delivers artifacts; exploratory engineering delivers knowledge.”” — K. Eric Drexler ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
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“As in real life, complex engineering designs demand a pragmatic approach.” — Haresh Sippy Copy Share Image
Engineering is about finding solutions with a commitment to ongoing refinement. That's what engineering training teaches you. — Shiva Ayyadurai Copy Share Image
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
“Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Engineers use knowledge primarily to design, produce, and operate artifacts. ... Scientists, by contrast, use knowledge primarily to generate more knowledge. — Walter Guido Vincenti Copy Share Image
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“The Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society maintains a registry that includes (at the moment) descriptions of 67,883,986 “commercially available chemicals” (many… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools. — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect,… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit.… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“Within the microblock-size range, larger blocks enable faster assembly, while smaller blocks enable finer-grained customization, and there’s no reason to limit choices to a… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body,… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
“Tsiolkovsky had no need for a lathe or a drill because he produced his results using the traditional tools of design engineering: pen and… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
