“The nation that dreamed up bonsai and origami and leads the world in nanotechnology prefers life to be bite-size, delicate, petite.”

“Issues of complexity, evolution, nanotechnology and robotics sit in the very center of this debate.”

“I patented nanotechnology, antigravity devices, and genetic techniques of all sorts by my teenage years.”

“This research could give a nanotechnologist a lot more materials for construction.”

“The toxicologist doesn't care whether you made a toxic compound using classical 19th-century synthetic chemistry or some new-ish scheme that came out of the lab of a so-called nanotechnologist.”

“Kostas Kostarelos, a nanotechnologist at Manchester University, is making magnetic swimming nanoparticles that could be guided to a specific place in the body.”

“What new tools to improve human performance will emerge from the convergence of nanotech, biotech, infotech and cognitive science?”

“Howard, you're one of the main editors of a daily webzine dedicated to the nanotech industry and then you do a nano blog besides.”

“My stock answer is that we get nanotech and build an active shield defense.”