Able Quote by Ralph Merkle

We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost.

— Ralph Merkle

We came out with a rice and a corn chip, then quickly decided we needed to focus on potato. It was just too much…

— Keith Belling

A potato is a poor thing, poorly treated. More often than not it is cooked in so unthinking and ignorant a manner as to…

— M. F. K. Fisher

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse…

— Ralph Merkle

Let me tell you about a place where technology won't work. When you walk onto a farm and are standing on soil, there is…

— Howard Graham Buffett

We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate…

— Eduard Buchner

There is fuel in every bit of vegetable matter that can be fermented. There's enough alcohol in one year's yield of an acre of…

— Henry Ford

Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research…

— Martin Rees

That's not all our crops can do. We are also learning how to transform plants into factories. We can now raise plants that will…

— Thomas Carper

“Production is profit; and profit is production. They are not merely related; they are the same thing. When a man plants potatoes, if he…

— Isabel Paterson

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry.

— Ann Macbeth

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

— Douglas Adams