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" For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want. "
Nathan Myhrvold
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" Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you. "
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" People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like. "
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" If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release! "
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" Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.' "
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" Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present. "
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Water
People
" 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?' "
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Opportunity
Love
Travel
" It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong. "
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Time
Alone
Universe
" Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. "
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Theory
Field
Physics
" People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead. "
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Time
Earth
People
" Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs. "
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You
See
Plants
" 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
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Steak
Home
" Life has not been boring for me. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Me
Been
Boring
" Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Words
Think
People
" Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out. "
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Risks
Flying
Race
" The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Internet
Protect
Magic
" 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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Powerful
Business
New
" 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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Humanity
DNA
World
" Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Science
Doing
Skills
" If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something. "
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Smells
Good
Kitchen
" 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. "
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Mother
Home
Great
" One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans. "
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Bold
Plan
Plans
" 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?' "
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More
Efficiency
Economy
" If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun! "
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You
Pretty
Somebody
" If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. "
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Important
Doing
People
" One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized. "
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" I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll. "
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Think
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" Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato. "
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Honor
Slow
People
" 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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People
Culture
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Go
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