NOBEL PEACE PRIZE ACCEPTANCE SPEECH March 22, 2002

First of all I would like to thank my parents, my wife and son, my colleagues in the physics department at Stanford, my team mates in Silicon Valley, the staff and seminar leaders at Esalen Institute, my cybertantric teachers on Rainbow Ridge and the Goddess Temple, my physical trainer, my numerous Dance Instructors, my many lovely Muses, and the plant and animal allies whose actions have given me courage to investigate the barely speakable.

As I glance into the audience, past the King of Sweden and former Nobel Laureates, I am not unaware of the presence of uniformed men prepared to arrest me as a war criminal if I disclose the secret of WeaponX, a weapon so effective and dangerous that it makes nuclear bombs seem like Chinese fireworks.

Like so many other revolutionary discoveries from the printing press to manned flight, there is a dark side as well as a bright side to Quantum Diplomacy as my discovery is sometimes called. Just as it is possible to use Quantum Diplomacy to further mutual understanding among sentient beings, so also is it possible to abuse Quantum Diplomacy to manufacture what I have called WeaponX. No, I will not disappoint the gentlemen with the handcuffs. I fully intend to reveal here everything that I know about this powerful new quantum weapon.

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