We are looking at a future where to a first approximation everyone is wealthy.

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.

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.

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.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

Situations have ended sad, Relationships have all been bad.

Books which are no books.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

I vill now destroy the snickuh bahrs!

A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

I still have nightmares about holding German sausages over my head.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

It's strange when you're innocent, are you supposed to ask for forgiveness from the judge who's ready to put you away for several years? No, this wasn't even discussed.