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Ralph Merkle

"One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations."

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"One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations."

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Donna Grant

"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."

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Donna Grant

"America is the most fertile ground of opportunity."

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Donna Grant

"I really don't feel any strong allegiance to any country."

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Donna Grant

"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

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Donna Grant

"It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system."

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Donna Grant

"A day away from Tallulah is like a month in the country."

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Donna Grant

"In 12 or 15 years, there will be routine, affordable space tourism not just in the U.S. but in a lot of countries."

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Donna Grant

"Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested."

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Donna Grant

"The direct investment of Japanese businesses to East Asian economies accelerates the reallocation of their production bases. Consequently, between Japan and the other East Asian countries, both exports and imports are growing substantially."

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Donna Grant

"But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world."

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Ralph Merkle
"If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life."

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Ralph Merkle
"If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy."

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Ralph Merkle
"Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant."

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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
"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
"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
"One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance."

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Ralph Merkle
"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."

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

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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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