Batteries Quote by Nathan Myhrvold

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad,…

— Nathan Myhrvold

In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Food, like anything else, lives in the physical world and obeys the laws of physics. When you whisk together some oil and a little…

— Nathan Myhrvold

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.

— Nathan Myhrvold

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

— 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.

— Nathan Myhrvold

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

— Nathan Myhrvold

One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what…

— Nathan Myhrvold

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…

— Nathan Myhrvold

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

— Nathan Myhrvold