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" I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll. "
Nathan Myhrvold
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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! "
Nathan Myhrvold
Always
Cool
Want
" It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered. "
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Going
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You
" If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. "
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Doing
People
" Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing! "
Nathan Myhrvold
Microsoft
Facebook
Doing
" No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that. "
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Encourage
Need
Want
" If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun! "
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Pretty
Somebody
" I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Way
Never
Business
" It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Time
Alone
Universe
" Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can't feel too bad for them. "
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Ride
Popularity
" 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
Why
Food
Asking
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Water
People
" One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Bold
Plan
Plans
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Free
Content
Movies
" I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy. "
Nathan Myhrvold
People
Food
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
" I never was a popular kid in class. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Never
Popular
Kid
" 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
" 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
" 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
Opportunity
Love
Travel
" My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Fun
You
Enough
" Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Vision
People
Goal
" 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
Night
Energy
Day
" 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
Politics
People
Culture
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Better
Own
People
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Time
Earth
People
" Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Amazing
Freeze
Raw
" Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Asteroid
Need
Will
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Limit
America
You
" We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Slow
Movies
Drops
" When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' "
Nathan Myhrvold
First
People
Think