Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Myhrvold
Nathan Paul Myhrvold, formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17 patents at Microsoft and has since co-sponsored applications for over 500 other patents for which his corporation is funding the patent monetization effort...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth3 August 1959
CountryUnited States of America
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Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
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Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
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Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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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.
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Among modern occupations, only cult leaders and TV weathermen rival the technological visionary's ability to retain credibility despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.
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A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
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An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
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No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.