Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.

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.

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.

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

If you think the technology is infeasible, you don’t worry about what it might do and what its potential is.

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.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can’t be treated or cannot be treated economically.

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.

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

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