"The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be……" — 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 things simpler."
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22 Quotes by K. Eric Drexler
K. Eric Drexler has 22 quotes on this site.
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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible…
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I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning…
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get…
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more…
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I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a…
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After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any…
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It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will be,…
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And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with, they move a…
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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of…
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But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think…
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In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive…
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
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Expect your every need to be met. Expect the answer to every problem, expect abundance on every level.
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
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The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
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I believe that Silicon Valley is truly a place of excellence and the impact of this tiny community on the…
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What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humor, comfort,…
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It's ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your…
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Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.
— E. O. Wilson
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Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
— Henry David Thoreau
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