Chips Quote by Ralph Merkle

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

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

Nanoengineering is learning how to make devices as small as 10 to 100 atoms in width. Much of the work is going on in…

— George M. Whitesides

Craft meets the machine in rapid fabrication. We can generate craft with the help of technology.

— Neri Oxman

Every technological product has to be designed and its fabrication overseen, and this is what engineers DO.

— Samuel Florman

I would like to emphasize strongly my belief that the era of computing chemists, when hundreds if not thousands of chemists will go to…

— Robert S. Mulliken

Manufacturing is more than just putting parts together. It's coming up with ideas, testing principles and perfecting the engineering, as well as final assembly.

— James Dyson

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

Nanotechnology is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of…

— Paul McEuen

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

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in…

— Ralph Merkle