"Protein engineering is a technology of molecular machines - of molecular machines that are part of replicators - and so it comes from an area that already raises some of the issues that nanotechnology will raise."
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
Albert Einstein on Technology"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
Oscar Wilde on Technology"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke on Technology"The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
John F. Kennedy on Technology"I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."
John F. Kennedy on Technology"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."
"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."