Nathan Myhrvold

Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.

— Nathan Myhrvold

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

— Nathan Myhrvold

I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

— 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

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

— Nathan Myhrvold

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people…

— Nathan Myhrvold

A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest.…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by…

— 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

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

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

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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

It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a…

— Nathan Myhrvold

There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software…

— Nathan Myhrvold

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can…

— Nathan Myhrvold

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.

— Nathan Myhrvold

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could…

— Nathan Myhrvold