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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
— Nathan Myhrvold
I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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.
— Nathan Myhrvold
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
— Nathan Myhrvold
It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
— Nathan Myhrvold
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
— Nathan Myhrvold
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.
— Nathan Myhrvold
By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
— Nathan Myhrvold
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
— Nathan Myhrvold
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
— Nathan Myhrvold
For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
— Nathan Myhrvold
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
— Nathan Myhrvold
We should have more invention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
I never was a popular kid in class.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
— Nathan Myhrvold
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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.
— Nathan Myhrvold
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
— Nathan Myhrvold
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
— Nathan Myhrvold
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Life has not been boring for me.
— Nathan Myhrvold
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
— 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
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
— Nathan Myhrvold
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
— Nathan Myhrvold
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.
— 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
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
— Nathan Myhrvold
Software sucks because users demand it to.
— Nathan Myhrvold
