Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
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.
Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.
In a sense, artificial intelligence will be the ultimate tool because it will help us build all possible tools.
. . . Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial technology. . . Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain the world's democracies, not the world as a whole.
What you call man is time.
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
Cooking well doesn't mean cooking fancy.
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.