Drexler Quotes

You look out some afternoon and there's Tom out mowing the grass, or he's rolling the infield, or just raking up some stuff. And I know he does the same thing for the softball program. - Pete Drexler

You can find academic and industrial groups doing some relevant work, but there isn't a focus on building complex molecular systems. In that respect, Japan is first, Europe is second, and we're third. - K. Eric Drexler

We want to draw attention to the fact that owls are not fit for being held in homes and can even be dangerous in some cases. - Szilard Drexler

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. - K. Eric Drexler

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. - K. Eric Drexler

The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. - K. Eric Drexler

Steve has been a very good player for a long time and it has to be tough on him not being in this game. He flies under the radar, and if you ask anybody who plays against Steve they will tell you that he's darned good. - Clyde Drexler

Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise. - K. Eric Drexler

Ours is a precautionary measure, as so far there have been no reported cases of owls being purchased as pets. - Szilard Drexler