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How Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat…
- If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook?…
- Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle…
- 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 same…
- Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
- Regardless of how it's done, transaction costs will continue to plummet as computers get more powerful. Low transaction costs are a wonderful thing if you're…
- Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how…
- Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an…
- The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't…
- The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is…
- Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another…
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- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong
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- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash