"If we attempt to block the development of new technology, we effectively have ensured that the most responsible parties will not develop them."
― Ralph Merkle
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More From 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."
- "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."
- "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."
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- "There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it."― Peter Erskine
- "These days there’s so much technology and ways you can learn. There are videos and CD roms."― Mick Taylor