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Ralph Merkle

"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 the entire world today."

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"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 the entire world today."

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Akiroq Brost

"Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."

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"The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot."

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Akiroq Brost

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy."

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Akiroq Brost

"I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."

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Akiroq Brost

"This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended."

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Akiroq Brost

"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

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Akiroq Brost

"Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm not computer literate. I e-mail. I know how to get on the Web, but I haven't crossed over into the internet world. I'm old-fashioned, I guess."

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Akiroq Brost

"We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology, and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in."

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Ralph Merkle
"Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem."

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

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Ralph Merkle
"If we can reduce the cost and improve the quality of medical technology through advances in nanotechnology, we can more widely address the medical conditions that are prevalent and reduce the level of human suffering."

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Ralph Merkle
"There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive."

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Ralph Merkle
"The first approximation in this future that we're looking at is that everyone will be physically well off. They will have a great abundance in material goods, and I think that will soften some of the conflicts we see now."

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Ralph Merkle
"It looks as though yields of over 10 times what we can currently grow per acre are feasible if you control the CO2 concentration, the humidity, the temperature, all the various factors that plants depend on to grow rapidly."

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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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Ralph Merkle
"Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn't believe."

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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 problems at the very root level."

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Ralph Merkle
"We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy."

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