“My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had...” — K. Eric Drexler Quote

“My work at MIT had focused on what we could build in space once we had inexpensive space transportation and industrial facilities in orbit. And this led to various sorts of work in space development.”

“But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.”

“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.”

“Any powerful technology can be abused.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You wanna get diarrhoea? Eat industrial food.”

“Support space-resource and industrial infrastructure. Multibillion-dollar satellites or voyagers to Mars and beyond, if we don't live off the land, we will always only be visitors or wire stringers in territories we do not inhabit or control.”

“Basically, theater or film is a dangerous industrial environment.”

“The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.”

“The problem with industrial food is zero transparency. The system thrives on the fact that there is no transparency.”

“The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.”