Advantage Quote by K. Eric Drexler

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail…

— K. Eric Drexler

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

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

— Ralph Merkle

A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the…

— Ralph Merkle

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make…

— Freya Stark

The machines need to get faster. They need to get cheaper.

— Bill Gates

We have always underestimated the cell...The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each…

— Bruce Alberts

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an…

— K. Eric Drexler

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes…

— K. Eric Drexler

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

Speed is absolutely key to creativity. The more time it takes to create something, the less likely you are to create something.

— Patrick Stump

Nanotechnology is manufacturing with atoms.

— William Powell