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" If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun! "
Nathan Myhrvold
You
Pretty
Somebody
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" If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention. "
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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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New York
Law
Travel
" 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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Early
Software
" Mankind is not special by virtue of our address in the universe, or what spins around us, or because life originated here. Slowly, but surely, we've been compelled to renounce the comfort of these beliefs. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Life
Universe
Virtue
" What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Look
Find
Dirt
" Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Accident
Want
Serious
" 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
" 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
" 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
Liberty
Life
Battles
" 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
Powerful
Business
New
" Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Alone
Business
Cards
" If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Then
Food
Heat
" I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Find
Think
Up
" The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Time
Bank
Long
" Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Still
Want
Science
" Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Before
New
Technological
" Life has not been boring for me. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Me
Been
Boring
" 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
Place
Funny
Men
" 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
" The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Internet
You
People
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Got
Universe
Science
" I'm one of the first invention capitalists. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Capitalists
First
Invention
" 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
Race
Enough
Song
" If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Important
Doing
People
" The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Help
Money
Value
" We should have more invention. "
Nathan Myhrvold
More
Should
Invention
" If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things. "
Nathan Myhrvold
World
Which
Legacy
" 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. "
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Science
Doing
Skills
" 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! "
Nathan Myhrvold
Some People
Eat
Good
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Technology
Science
Problems