When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 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
I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it… — 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
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
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
Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to… — 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
