top of page
Quote_1.png
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."

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

Exlpore more Technology quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"He decided not to ask for details. Better to avoid exposing his ignorance even further."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Self-driving cars are the natural extension of active safety and obviously something we should do."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"In the short run, technology many be more efficient than man, but it will never be perfect. Every piece of equipment will eventually reveal an error code. In the long run, man will never be perfect, but prove to be more reliable than technology."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"A smartphone is an addictive device which traps a soul into a lifeless planet full of lives."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Well, Naomi said cheerfully, "what's the worst that can happen? They were silent, considering that, because there were just so many possibilities. But in the end, it was a better idea than Facebook."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"S.M."Social Media or Social Menace?I'll leave it to you to work out."

Explore more quotes by Ralph Merkle

Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"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."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available."
Quote_1.png
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."
Quote_1.png
Ralph Merkle
"We see an entire planet which has many limitations."
bottom of page