43 Quotes by 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

The primary question shifts to, what do we want? What is it that we find valuable intrinsically rather than what is it that we can afford to make?