"If you think the technology is infeasible, you……" — Ralph Merkle
"If you think the technology is infeasible, you don't worry about what it might do and what its potential is."
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29 Quotes by Ralph Merkle
Ralph Merkle has 29 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will…
- Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe.
- Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either…
- Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if…
- Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were…
- One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind…
- As in any technological revolution, there will be winners and losers. On balance, everyone will come out ahead, although there…
- One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials,…
- The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
- We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
- We see an entire planet which has many limitations.
- There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in…