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Men Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
- Most visions of extraterrestrial life are actually steeped in human hubris. The fictional extraterrestrials of 'Star Trek' or a hundred other space operas are less…
- 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…
- Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on…
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