K. Eric Drexler quote: "The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute."

But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I t...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid mole...
K. ERIC DREXLER

It's a lot easier to see, at least in some cases, what the long-term limits of the possible will...
K. ERIC DREXLER

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on...
K. ERIC DREXLER

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, ...
K. ERIC DREXLER

An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessari...
K. ERIC DREXLER

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atom...
K. ERIC DREXLER

My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportat...
K. ERIC DREXLER

On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per...
K. ERIC DREXLER

And that because the moving parts are a million times smaller than the ones we're familiar with,...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Any powerful technology can be abused.
K. ERIC DREXLER

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made ...
K. ERIC DREXLER

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build m...
K. ERIC DREXLER

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive critic...
K. ERIC DREXLER

But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including...
K. ERIC DREXLER

I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that w...
K. ERIC DREXLER

In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, w...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of r...
K. ERIC DREXLER

Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our abili...
K. ERIC DREXLER

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attentio...
K. ERIC DREXLER

I think I was the youngest, fastest-promoted buyer in the history of Bloomingdale's.
MICKEY DREXLER

I find, in merchandising and design and creative, a business school degree isn't particularly he...
MICKEY DREXLER

You can't run a business without taking risks.
MILLARD DREXLER

When I started at Bloomingdale's as a buyer, Alexander's was a discounter across the street,...
MICKEY DREXLER

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what...
MILLARD DREXLER

If you don't get trained for your SATs in America today, you are at a disadvantage. Training is ...
MILLARD DREXLER

I like to prove things wrong.
MILLARD DREXLER

The first thing you see when you walk into a store is color.
MILLARD DREXLER

I love to work. I have a passion for what I do.
MILLARD DREXLER

I spot detail quickly.
MILLARD DREXLER

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.
MILLARD DREXLER

Creativity runs on automatic, no matter what's happening in other parts of my life. I can't ...
MILLARD DREXLER

I'm looking for best practices constantly. Apple has beautiful design, beautiful product, incred...
MILLARD DREXLER

I'm always looking over my shoulder, needing to stay ahead of the game.
MILLARD DREXLER

I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows...
MILLARD DREXLER

People put 'study abroad' on their resume. I actually like when they don't study abroad ...
MILLARD DREXLER

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how...
MILLARD DREXLER

What matters is hard work, and emotional intelligence.
MILLARD DREXLER

Christopher Columbus discovered America in a blue-and-white sailor shirt, and since then, men have b...
MICKEY DREXLER

Do it, do it right, pay close attention to the product, and over time, you will win.
MICKEY DREXLER

I'm looking forward to partnering with TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners. This transa...
MICKEY DREXLER

I call them associates; I don't like the word 'employee.'
MICKEY DREXLER

I don't buy art. I'd rather buy a beautiful location or a beautiful site than buy art. A bea...
MILLARD DREXLER

The person is a resume, not what's on a piece of paper. Whoever gives advice about resumes in co...
MICKEY DREXLER

There are too many retailers. There are too many brands. There are too many designers. There are too...
MICKEY DREXLER

If you don't care about the lapel or the buttons or the fit, then you are doing a disservice to ...
MICKEY DREXLER

I would like Madewell jeans to be the Levi's of its generation.
MICKEY DREXLER

A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how...
MICKEY DREXLER

My personal opinion about the world is that it's homogenized.
MICKEY DREXLER

You look out some afternoon and there's Tom out mowing the grass, or he's rolling the infield, or ju...
PETE DREXLER

The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.
ROSALYN DREXLER

I, Larry Vail, do hereby confess
To murdering Merry in her little dress.
To strangling and...
ROSALYN DREXLER

I hire a lot of waiters, waitresses. Someone who's successful has a background that's not pr...
MICKEY DREXLER

I don't size up their grades or their board scores. Because in America today, that's just an...
MICKEY DREXLER

It takes a long time to get a reputation for quality. There are people in our industry, they're ...
MICKEY DREXLER

I think it's in my mind, and it's driven me my entire life, and it is to offer customers tas...
MICKEY DREXLER

Every single day, I'm curious about everything. Curiosity is finding answers to things.
MICKEY DREXLER

Steve has been a very good player for a long time and it has to be tough on him not being in this ga...
CLYDE DREXLER

As a young guy, he probably said and did some things that were perceived as being selfish, but he's ...
CLYDE DREXLER

He's got a nice handle. Some of the point guards in the NBA could take a few notes from him.
CLYDE DREXLER

I was lucky. I spent almost 12 years in Portland and came to Houston for the last 3 1/2 years, which...
CLYDE DREXLER

I hated to see that. He should have played his whole career here.
CLYDE DREXLER

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.
K

All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.
K. FORD K.

When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY

My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY

I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY

A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY

I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY

Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY

Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY

I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY

My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY

I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY

I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY

The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY

When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY

As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY

More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY

It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY

Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY

There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY

There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY

My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY

Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY

A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY

Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
K. FLAY

The more time passes in your life, I think the greater you understand perspective. So I'm happy ...
K. FLAY

Remember, when the judgment's weak, the prejudice is strong.
K. O'HARA

There's only so many variations on the basics of human relationships. To me, it's all about ...
K. FLAY

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.
K. FLAY

My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ...
K. FLAY

Even the dark places are places. You're still somewhere.
K. FLAY

I was thinking about how we're so in touch with our image now. That conception of ourselves, in ...
K. FLAY

What's become a big theme in my music is my dad as a narrative character. I never had the opport...
K. FLAY

I was always very academically focused when I was growing up, and music was something for which I re...
K. FLAY

Mainly, I hope to inspire honesty. We live in a space where so much can be manipulated, and so much ...
K. FLAY

My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K

when your child is born, you know that of all the lives you might have lived, only this one was ever...
K WILCOX

I'm done with temporary... I need permanence!
K. MARQUES

Remember This: People give advice, not to hurt you but, to keep you from getting hurt. They see thin...
K. MARQUES

If you aren't worth it to them, they shouldn't be worth it to you.
K. MARQUES

Big Love and More Light!
XxMwaaahhhhXx
K. LOVE

Love one another. Love yourself. Then love will find you whole not half.
K. TAYLOR

Never tread lightly. Leave a deep impression wherever you go.
K. RAFFERTY

The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
RELIENT K

Books are like ice cream; there is a flavor for everyone!
K. LAMB

and I'm trying so hard, with all my heart and mind, to make your life as good as you've made mine...
RELIENT K

We should get jerseys, cause we make a good team; but yours would look better than mine, cause you'r...
RELIENT K

Here comes the best part,” I say, realizing that I’ve spoken aloud the words I always tease Hadd...
K. BROMBERG

Without knowing anything else about him, i already know he'd be worth the hurt.
K. BROMBERG

The beauty of grace is that it makes like not fair.
RELIENT K

Love can hurt sometimes. Sometimes the things that make you happy can bring you sadness. But you hav...
CAITLYN K

Our heads are full of comparisons, needs for approval and attention, a desire to be at other places,...
LIDIYA K.

Are you mad?” She breathes from behind me. I spin around to face her.
“What do you think?�...
K. LARS

Lane, I will become attached to you. It happens with everyone. Something about my personality makes ...
K. WEBSTER

I’ve noticed that most of us don’t realize how important this moment is. They take it for grante...
LIDIYA K.

Making many mistakes
Doesn't make you a failure
It makes you become more successful
K-GIRL

We can't always be the bridge. Sometimes we have to be the flooding river.
K. WEIKEL

But, Leader, she is wrong -

"Maybe she is," Quill say and looks at Becca. Her heart poun...
K. WEIKEL

You wouldn't want to trade the eternal loop of your life for an infinite loop in the world of ideas,...
JOE K.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. ~Oliver Wendal...
K. LANGSTON

Saying everything is okay doesn't make you a grown-up.
K. WEIKEL

Are my own thoughts bad?
K. WEIKEL

We will no longer be outcasts - we will be rulers.
K. WEIKEL

A friend of mine encouraged me to try rapping, so I started experimenting with it, writing verses, s...
K. FLAY

This life we all receive is full of invisible boundaries and abstract values.
K. CONLEY

There is always going to be evil as long as goodness lives on.
K. WEIKEL

Sometimes an angel is found in the dark.
K. WEBSTER

Then, I exit her apartment. With practiced efficiency, I engage all of the locks in seconds. I want ...
K. WEBSTER

Violet makes me better,” I tell him, confidence in my tone. He smirks. “I can see that. I can se...
K. WEBSTER

It’s a penis not an introduction to the president.
K. WEBSTER

To achieve true beauty, you have to look within, before you change without.
K. RAFFERTY

In that case, which would be the lesser of two evils—terror cabin with a psycho or beach estate wi...
K. WEBSTER

I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of thei...
K. FLAY

I think a part of me thought that I might be interested in academia because I really do love school....
K. FLAY

You constantly hear about voter fraud... but you don't see huge amounts of vote fraud out there.
ERIC HOLDER

We must never stop fighting for a vision of American democracy in which we strive for and encourage ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Children are the keys of paradise.
ERIC HOFFER

It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.
ERIC HOFFER

Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and ...
ERIC HOFFER

The only way to predict the future is to have power to shape the future.
ERIC HOFFER

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to le...
ERIC HOFFER

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us...
ERIC HOFFER

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.
ERIC HOFFER

The beginning of thought is in disagreement - not only with others but also with ourselves.
ERIC HOFFER

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.
ERIC HOFFER

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if yo...
ERIC HOLDER

I've been hearing this since I first joined the Reds organization, that I'm going to be the ...
ERIC DAVIS

I can understand why a single parent, working two jobs, would find it easier to stop at McDonald'...
ERIC SCHLOSSER

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achie...
ERIC BUTTERWORTH

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.
ERIC SEVAREID

If you sequence a cancerous tumor, you should be able to tailor the therapy according to the root ca...
ERIC TOPOL

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-por...
ERIC KANDEL

I want to be remembered for my poop jokes. Those are the most important kind.
ERIC ANDRE

A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins...
ERIC BERNE

Google was founded to get information to everybody. A by-product of that strategy is that we invente...
ERIC SCHMIDT

When someone makes a claim against the state, that person must legally verify that the facts in the ...
ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have ...
ERIC HOLDER

Television is a lot of fun. It's faster-paced. The schedule is really desirable, I guess. But as...
ERIC DANE

It takes a lot of energy to be negative. You have to work at it. But smiling is painless. I'd ra...
ERIC DAVIS

I like Velvet Underground, but I was never really hardcore into them. I like them, and I like Nico, ...
ERIC ANDRE

If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
ERIC CANTONA

I love cheese and biscuits, the stronger the better.
ERIC BRISTOW

Why should citizenship be a matter of birth? The premise held by those who want to end birthright ci...
ERIC LIU

I am a Buddhist, therefore I should not be collecting anything - however, I have a collection of Bud...
ERIC RIPERT

First paying gig, I got 20 bucks. I played at some really weird venue. I don't remember the venu...
ERIC ANDRE

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN

When Bryan Price taught me how to throw a changeup, he made me see myself. All my life, I've bee...
ERIC LIU

I have two bowls of confidence for breakfast each morning.
ERIC BRISTOW

If you are going to make a change, make it big and bold. Walk up to the biggest guy on the block, st...
ERIC SHINSEKI

With breathtaking rapidity, we are destroying all that was lovely to look at and turning America int...
ERIC SEVAREID

You know, you grow up with the image of John Travolta being super cool - 'Saturday Night Fever,&...
ERIC STOLTZ

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby t...
ERIC HOFFER

The compulsion to take ourselves seriously is in inverse proportion to our creative capacity. When t...
ERIC HOFFER

How much easier is self-sacrifice than self-realization!
ERIC HOFFER

There is probably an element of malice in the readiness to overestimate people; we are laying up for...
ERIC HOFFER

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is as true of men as of dogs.
ERIC HOFFER

I have a Tinder account. Now I've done Bumble, and I've tried this other one, and the way I ...
ERIC STONESTREET

At Tenafly High, I was lucky to have some dedicated teachers; I'm especially indebted to my calc...
ERIC MASKIN

If your goal is to make money, becoming an entrepreneur is a sucker's bet. Sure, some entreprene...
ERIC RIES

All I ever wanted to do was get a great job on a TV show. When I read 'Modern Family' and st...
ERIC STONESTREET

My wife is a real camper; it's a nice way to bond.
ERIC MCCORMACK

Great businessmen are creators.
ERIC CANTONA

I'll tell you one thing about me: I'm very private. I always have been private. People think...
ERIC DICKERSON

Within that dream of working with your partner, you want to be able to separate and have a home life...
ERIC WINTER

There is no greater country on Earth for entrepreneurship than America. In every category, from the ...
ERIC RIES

If what I've been told is true - and I believe it is, General David Petraeus, a commander with s...
ERIC MASSA

There are certain mutations you can find across cancers in different organs.
ERIC TOPOL

There are estimates that 2 to 3 percent of cancers in the U.S. each year are engendered by exposure ...
ERIC TOPOL

As with almost every significant aspect of the Bush presidency, its handling of 9/11 was a catastrop...
ERIC ALTERMAN

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist.
ERIC CLAPTON

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the ...
ERIC WHITACRE

There's a roots nature to Appalachia - the origins of folk and bluegrass. I know guys there who ...
ERIC CHURCH

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a sym...
ERIC HOFFER

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
ERIC HOFFER

Marriage has for women many equivalents of joining a mass movement. It offers them a new purpose in ...
ERIC HOFFER

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger ...
ERIC HOFFER

The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.

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