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" Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Theory
Field
Physics
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" 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. "
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" Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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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People
" 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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Food
Asking
" 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. "
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You
Ride
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" Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft. "
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Wonderful
Age
Red
" 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
" Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Your Dreams
Powerful
Important
" Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Easy
Always
Tough
" 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
" 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
" Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Give
Judges
Time
" 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
" When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' "
Nathan Myhrvold
First
People
Think
" 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'm one of the first invention capitalists. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Capitalists
First
Invention
" 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. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Doing
Black
Better
" 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
" 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
" Life has not been boring for me. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Me
Been
Boring
" 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
" 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
" 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
" If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you. "
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Level
You
Going
" Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly. "
Nathan Myhrvold
Elections
Truth
Successful
" 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
" 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
More
" 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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You
Water
People