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" Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works. "

Nathan Myhrvold

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" If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat. "

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" We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me. "

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" 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. "

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" Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way. "

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" In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly. "

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" My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking. "

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" Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock. "

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" Life has not been boring for me. "

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" One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans. "

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" Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. "

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" If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale. "

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" If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting. "

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" The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better. "

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" A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee. "

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" Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded. "

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" I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that! "

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" The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors. "

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" The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen. "

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" A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA. "

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" The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. "

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" When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' "

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" 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. "

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" The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news? "

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" Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft. "

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" We should have more invention. "

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" 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. "

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" There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability. "

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" I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef. "

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" Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. "

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