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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 these sorts of things. "

K. Eric Drexler

Learning , Design , Machines

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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 lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. "

K. Eric Drexler

People , Thinking , Real

" In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough. "

K. Eric Drexler

Thinking , Understanding , Important

" In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools. "

K. Eric Drexler

Intelligence , Helping

" 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 at computer speeds. "

K. Eric Drexler

Doe , Machines

" Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them. "

K. Eric Drexler

Study , Scientist

" Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could out-compete real bacteria: They could spread like blowing pollen, replicate swiftly, and reduce the biosphere to dust in a matter of days. Dangerous replicators could easily be too tough, small, and rapidly spreading to stop - at least if we make no preparation. We have trouble enough controlling viruses and fruit flies. "

K. Eric Drexler

Real

" I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things. "

K. Eric Drexler

Learning , Design , Machines

" Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise. "

K. Eric Drexler

Technology , Engineering , Issues

" After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that. "

K. Eric Drexler

Atoms , Machines , Patterns

" An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. "

K. Eric Drexler

Running , Technology , Race

" Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. "

K. Eric Drexler

Medicine , Intelligent , Stupid

" Nature draws no line between living and nonliving. "

K. Eric Drexler

Lines , Draws , Rationality

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