#bi

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

#been #biological #build #design #fact

The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#big difference #completely #degree #detail #difference

Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#around #best #big #body #crude

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent. ↗

— Joe Walsh

#billionaires #estimates #i #i think #increase

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#bizarre #hollywood #masonic

What I'm saying is simply that every totalitarian society, no matter how strict, has had its underground. In fact, two undergrounds. There's the underground involved in political resistance and the underground involved in preserving beauty and fun--which is to say, preserving the human spirit. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#still-life-with-woodpecker #tom-robbins #totalitarianism #beauty

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#does #give #imposes #power #privilege

Being successful at a very young age gave me the confidence and the capability to try out other things. ↗

— Joshua Lederberg

#being #capability #confidence #gave #me

Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands. ↗

— Peter Drucker

#because #brand #brands #cannot #customer

To become Christ-like is the only thing in the whole world worth caring for, the thing before which every ambition of man is folly and all lower achievement vain. ↗

— Henry Drummond

#ambition #become #before #caring #every