Nathan Myhrvold Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Politicians don't like to face unpleasant realities. In truth, nobody does, but as individuals, we have no choice; if we neglect to plan ahead, we are held accountable. Fail to meet your responsibilities at work, and you get fired. Ignore your car's gas gauge, and you get stranded.”

“The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.”

“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.”

“Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.”

“Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.”

“Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.”

“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.”