Containers Quote by Nathan Myhrvold Download Open image “Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !” — Nathan Myhrvold ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Containers Fit Gas Software
Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. — Norman Ralph Augustine Copy Share Image
Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities. — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
People will realize that software is not a product; you use it to build a product. — Linus Torvalds Copy Share Image
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Software is different than other products um, partly because it's, it's not physical and, and partly because of its complexity. You can express in… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Software never was perfect and won't get perfect. But is that a license to create garbage? The missing ingredient is our reluctance to quantify… — Boris Beizer 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
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
Nowadays I find chocolate and/or chocolate-based snacks to be great motivators. Everyone loves chocolate. If someone has a lot of work to do, put… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through… — Ben Cohen Copy Share Image
It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we… — Paige Bradley Copy Share Image
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Industrial liquid gas containers were left open and venting gas into the indoor environment in high altitude astronomy. On reflection, I realized that I… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
If you find it complicated to answer someone’s question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The… — Judith Hanson Lasater Copy Share Image
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
