We can grow crops less expensively because molecular manufacturing technology is inherently low cost. – Ralph Merkle
A molecular manufacturing technology will let us build molecular surgical tools, and those tools will, for the first time, let us directly address the problems at the very root level. – Ralph Merkle
Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production. – Ralph Merkle
If you look at the various strategies available for dealing with a new technology, sticking your head in the sand is not the most plausible strategy. – Ralph Merkle
As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogans amazing debut novel, The Lifeboat, when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. Its such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling. – Karen Thompson Walker