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"I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."

K. Eric Drexler on Design

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• "The artist in me cries out for design."

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• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

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• "Sometimes I can't figure designers out. It's as if they flunked human anatomy."

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More quotes by K. Eric Drexler

• "I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things."

• "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."

• "Any powerful technology can be abused."

• "My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race."

• "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."