Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.

  • -- Ralph Merkle 拉尔夫·默克尔

制造是在非常大的设施中进行的。如果你想制造计算机芯片,你需要一个巨大的半导体制造设备。但是,自然界只需要一株植物就可以培育出复杂的分子机器。

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A potato can grow quite easily on a very small plot of land. With molecular manufacturing, we'll be able to have distributed manufacturing, which will permit manufacturing at the site using technologies that are low-cost and easily available.

马铃薯可以很容易地在一小块土地上生长。通过分子制造,我们将能够实现分布式制造,这将允许现场制造使用低成本且容易获得的技术。

Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

是的,长官,一辆巡逻车来了,把我带到一个车站,他们正在冲洗胶卷,但是他们没有冲洗彩色胶卷的设备。

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

几乎所有的质量改进都是通过简化设计、制造…布局、过程和过程。