Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
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… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
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 Copy Share
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… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
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… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
