"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."

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Source : Foresight Interview, foresight.org.

K. Eric Drexler

#Tools Quotes #Use Quotes #Way Quotes

“I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.”
“I have decided to keep a record of my inmost real-self thoughts. Perhaps it will help me to find out what I really am like: horrid, I know: selfish, conceited, and material-minded. For instance, lately whenever I've tried to concentrate on anything serious or beautiful, I've started thinking about the Spencers' dance next week. I am ashamed of my pettiness. I'm going to try to do better this year--develop my character more and not always be thinking about enjoying myself. I've always been so happy, I dread disappointment and unhappiness, but they would be good for me. But I don't want them.”
“I played against the Brazilians in '82, who were definitely the best team never to have won the World Cup.”
“She remembered the godswood, drooping branches heavy with moisture, and the sound of her brotherâ€™s laughter as he chased her through piles of damp leaves.”
“It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.”
“I woke up and realized life is great and people are awesome and life is worth living.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 14, 2016
“We Christians forget (if we ever learned) that attempts to redress real or imagined injustice by violent means are merely another exercise in denial - denial of God and her nonviolence towards us, denial of love of neighbor, denial of laws essential to our being.”

Source : "Fighting the Lamb's War: Skirmishes with the American Empire". Book by Philip Berrigan, p. 204, 1996.
“Isn't the act of calling everyone a fool left and right the indication of a true fool?”

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