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
secret recipes inventor
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
discipline want debate
Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.
atmosphere sulfur earth
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
want chef popularity
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
people important threatening
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
block gun gelatin
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
safety heat microbiology
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
smell kitchen lost
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
thinking people insane
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
children years people
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
decision intuition pants
Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.
moving past technology
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. The Apple of the past was an innovative company that used software and hardware technology together to redefine the way people experienced computing. That Apple is already dead. Very adroit moves might be able to save the brand name. A company with the letters A-P-P-L-E in its name might survive, but it won't be the Apple of yore.
grandmother past ideas
With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?
wine years kitchen
Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.