If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

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 entire world today.

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

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

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

One of the concepts essential to molecular manufacturing is that of a self-replicating manufacturing system. That concept has lagged behind in its acceptance.

One of the things that we can say with confidence is that we will have much lighter, much stronger materials, and this will reduce the cost of air flight, and it will reduce the cost of rockets.

Today we see a human population of over 6 billion people, many of whom have serious medical conditions, which either can't be treated or cannot be treated economically.

We see an entire planet which has many limitations.

Machines built by human beings they will function correctly if we provide them with a very specific environment. But if that environment is changed they won't function at all.

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

The phrase "working mother" is redundant.

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing and mojito in your hand.

Look, I've always been a confident bloke. I'm grateful to my mother for that.

Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.

Bear calamities with meekness.

Borrowing for expansion is one thing; borrowing to make up for mismanagement and waste is quite another.

I think it doesn't matter what color you are. Everybody is getting the - getting the stick, and I'm sure Trump feels the same way.

The historical debate is over. The answer is free-market capitalism.