“Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, a...” — K. Eric Drexler Quote

“Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.”

“After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.”

“An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs.”

“I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else.”

“In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.”

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”

“If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.”

“In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.”

“Your heart can only take you so far - sometimes the physical body tells you otherwise.”

“I love boxing. There's something fierce about using your body's force that way.”

“Not a lot of people or pros in this game know how to train correctly. That's why they don't have a long career. Their body gets banged up. They get into a rhythm of heavy sparring and heavy work, but through that, they're limiting movement.”