Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

Life has not been boring for me.

— Nathan Myhrvold

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Software sucks because users demand it to.

— Nathan Myhrvold

I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

— Nathan Myhrvold

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

— Nathan Myhrvold

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why…

— Nathan Myhrvold

I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe,…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented -…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the…

— Nathan Myhrvold

New online formats gutted the newspaper-ad business. Why pore over tiny print looking for a job in the want ads when you…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“Humans are a story telling species. Throughout history we have told stories to each other and ourselves as one of the ways…

— Nathan Myhrvold

I never was a popular kid in class.

— Nathan Myhrvold

We should have more invention.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

— Nathan Myhrvold

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

— Nathan Myhrvold