If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. — 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
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 Copy Share Image
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person,… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,'… — 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
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 Copy Share Image
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied… — 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
