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People Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to…
- 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…
- If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in…
- In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that…
- 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…
- If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
- In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
- Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
- When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
- Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in…
- Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of…
- I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of…
- 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 like chili, or…
- Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things…
- People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale.…
- People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of…
- Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is…
- 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 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 a…
- The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they…
- 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 modern cooking is…
- We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only…
- We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch…
- Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted…
More People Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle