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Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Paul Myhrvold (born August 3, 1959), formerly Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft, is co-founder of Intellectual Ventures and the principal author of Modernist Cuisine and its successor books. Myhrvold was listed as co-inventor on 17 U.S. patents at Microsoft and is co-inventor on over 750 other U.S. patents issued to his corporation and its affiliates.

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When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane. '

Cookbook, Cuisine, Insane, People, Thinking

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

Look, Opportunity, Past, Study, Thinking, Use

The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?

Cloning, Dna, Ivf, Principle, Religious

People get cranky when you burst their bubble. Over time, advances in astronomy have relentlessly reinforced the utter insignificance of Earth on a celestial scale. Fortunately, political and religious leaders stopped barbecuing astronomers for saying so, turning their spits with human-rights activists instead.

Barbecuing, People, Religious, Rights, Time, Turning

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

Hands, Jobs, Men, Sadly, Sort, Wrong

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

Applications, Computer, Growing, Knees, Law, Size

If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

Night, Technology, Wind, Enough, Nowhere

We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7. 50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

Epic, Home, Pay, Steven, Watches

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

Art, Drama, Theatrical, Think, Thinking

The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

Black, Food, Line, Lines, Tin

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

Crazy, Foundation, Ideas, Work

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house. '

Boys, Dad, Kick, Silicon, Teenage

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

Easily, Government, Input, May, Measured, Relatively

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Successful, Effectiveness, Suffering, Measures, Competency, Elections

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.

Dream, Powerful, Creating, Dreams, Instead, Burns

Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Investing, Making, Making Money, Patents, Stock

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.

Debate, Debates, Discipline, Economists, Science, Want

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

Boring, Dramatic, Happen, Happens, Predict

The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in size, and a trip to New York would cost about five dollars. Those enormous changes just aren't part of our everyday experience.

Everyday, Law, New York, Occurs, Size, Travel

Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you have to remember that this is like the entire human race riding the plane - it is one of the few risks that really could wipe us all out.

Flying, Impact, Like, Race, Same

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