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If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Doing
#Find
#Important
#People
#Then
The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
- Nathan Myhrvold
#21st Century
#Journalism
#News
#Will
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Cookbook
#Only
#Partial
#World
Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Amazing
#Freeze
#Lobster
#Raw
#Tail
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Anything
#Dynamic
#Market
#New
#Simply
Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#New
#People
#Unknown
#Will
#World
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Future
#More
#Nobody
#Present
#Will
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Attractive
#Human
#Knowledge
#Truth
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Battles
#Diet
#Happiness
#Liberty
#Life
The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Computers
#New
#Old
#Powerful
#Time
Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Computers
#Free
#Internet
#People
#Why
Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're in the transaction business. They're wonderful for consumers too, making it cheaper and easier to buy things and creating new things to buy.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Business
#Computers
#New Things
#New
Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less alien than many of my neighbors. And funny, the ones running the place are mostly WASPish men.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Alien
#Funny
#Life
#Men
#Space
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Cooking
#Food
#Inside
#Physics
#Water
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Chance
#Earth
#Human
#New
#Song
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#About
#Food
#Heat
#Safety
#Talk
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per copy from subscribers, $1.25 at the newsstand and a whopping $5 per copy from ads. The ad revenue let them run a far bigger newsroom than subscribers were paying for.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Copy
#Early
#Microsoft
#Research
#Street
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Boy
#Facts
#Great
#Literature
#Surprise
The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Experience
#Law
#Life
#Travel
#Way
Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Concept
#Efficiency
#Government
#More
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Culture
#Politics
#Real
#Religion
#Way
#World
If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Four
#Long
#Need
#Tell
#Two
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Asteroid
#Need
#Space
#Us
#Will
Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Art
#Control
#Cooking
#Knowing
#More
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Love
#Opportunity
#Science
#Travel
#Work
The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Adult
#Difference
#DNA
#Egg
#Law
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Day
#Energy
#Night
#Power
#Time
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Cooking
#Great
#Home
#Love
#Thanksgiving
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
- Nathan Myhrvold
#Age
#Red
#Space
#Wine
#Wonderful
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