Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed t…

- Ralph Merkle

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

- Ralph Merkle

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

- Ralph Merkle

Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But na…

- Ralph Merkle

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 entir…

- Ralph Merkle

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

- Ralph Merkle

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that ki…

- Ralph Merkle

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

- Ralph Merkle

The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.

- Ralph Merkle