The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 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… — 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
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
Movies such as 'Citizen Kane' and 'The Front Page' portrayed an era when driven newspapermen would do anything to get a story.… — 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
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
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
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
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
