43 Quotes by Ralph Merkle

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.

We don't attempt to predict what will happen. We can describe what is possible within the laws of known physics. Physics is well understood.

If you have a lower-cost manufacturing technology, which can build a wide range of products less expensively, it can build better medical products.

If you have a distributed manufacturing technology, one of the great advantages is that it should let us have a much lower cost infrastructure.

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.

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.

What we refer to as 'death' is just a set of symptoms that have proven resistant to treatment.

Nanotechnology is an idea that most people simply didn’t believe.

Nanotechnology will let us build computers that are incredibly powerful. We’ll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in the entire world today.