"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."

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Source : "Nanotechnology: Designs for the Future". Interview with John Gehl, ubiquity.acm.org. July 2000.

Ralph Merkle

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“Childhood didn't have a big influence on me, really - in fact I spent most of it plotting how to escape.”
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“Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.”
“The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.”
“To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!”
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“Oh, let us lose our milk teeth and cut instead the strong teeth of hate and love.”
“Experiencing different cultures is one of the best things a human being can do. It puts your whole world into perspective.”

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