Boring Quote by Nathan Myhrvold Download Open image “It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.” — Nathan Myhrvold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boring Dramatic
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the… — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself predicting things. I'm expressing possibilities. Things that could happen. To a large extent it's a question of how badly… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne Copy Share Image
Predictions are preposterous. What usually happens is that people tell you that what they'd like to see happen instead of what they really think… — Jackie Mason Copy Share Image
Life itself is predictable... Once you have the dice rolling your way... — Osvaldo M Copy Share Image
When something happens people didn't predict, they find ways to explain it as if it were predictable. — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work. — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.' — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'd be very controversial if I said why, and I don't do controversial anymore. That's too passé. So last year. Being controversial is boring… — M.I.A Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
Balance is the ability to be happy in the midst of the most chaotic or even boring or transient circumstance. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The films I find boring are the ones that have no space for the audience's misconceptions. — Josephine Decker Copy Share Image
It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with her over a weak… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I've always felt that dark lyrics with dark music is pretty useless. Maybe that's a strong statement - not useless, but for me, it's… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Something is wrong if workers do not look around each day, find things that are tedious or boring, and then rewrite the procedures. Even… — Taiichi Ohno Copy Share Image
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that… — John Cage Copy Share Image
