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From Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's…
- In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per…
- Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
- One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
- The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
- Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do.…
- The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an…
- When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the…
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