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"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
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"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

"Ever since Eve started it all by offering Adam the apple, woman's punishment has been to supply a man with food then suffer the consequences when it disagrees with him."

"I used to hang out by the food table at parties because you don't have to talk to anybody. If you do then you can talk about the food."

"At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind."

"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
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"The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."

"Many people in the world today are not starving because there is an inherent inability to produce food, they are starving because they are caught in the middle of political fights and blockades that have been used as weapons."

"One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and the cost of rockets."

"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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