No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an… — 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
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 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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
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
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
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
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
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
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
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
The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share
