Ralph Merkle Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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.”

“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.”

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

“We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.”

“We see an entire planet which has many limitations.”

“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.”

“Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed, they won't function at all.”

“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.”

“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.”