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Thing Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold
- 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…
- It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing -…
- A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things…
- 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…
- 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…
- The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials…
- 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…
- If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the…
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