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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. "

Nathan Myhrvold

Night

Technology

Sun

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Intelligence

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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. "

" 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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" 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. "

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" If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention. "

Nathan Myhrvold

Popularity

Want

" 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

Cool

Earth

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

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

" 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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