Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold

About Nathan Myhrvold:

Nathan Paul Myhrvold is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17 patents at Microsoft and has since co-sponsored applications for over 500 other patents for which his corporation is funding the patent monetization effort.
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Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

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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 busine...

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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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Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

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Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

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With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talen...

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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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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

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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.

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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

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The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a fl...

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Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genet...

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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 dif...

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The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?

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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.

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We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American...

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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

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Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better...

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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

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Author Bio

  • NameNathan Myhrvold
  • DescriptionChief Technology Officer at Microsoft
  • BornAugust 3, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMathematician; Engineer; Photographer; Entrepreneur