Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 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
The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
