List of Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

Anybody Who Can Afford A Box Of Business Cards Can Afford A Web Site. Any Company With An 800 Number Can Move Its Services To The Web For Peanuts By Comparison. The Extreme Case Of Corporate Promotion Is To Strip Away All Other Aspects Of Your Business And Sell Goods Or Services Via The Net Alone, As Amazon.com Has Done With Books.

Now, To Find Dinosaurs, You Hike Around In Horrible Conditions Looking For A Dinosaur. It Sounds Really Dumb, But That's What It Is. It's Horrible Conditions, Because Wherever You Have Nice Weather, Plants Grow, And You Don't Get Any Erosion, And You Don't See Any Dinosaurs.

Ultimately, My Ph.d. Is In Mathematical Physics, Focusing On Quantum Field Theory And Curved Space-time, And I Worked With Stephen Hawking.

Our Goal Was To Show People A Vision Of Food They Hadn't Seen Before. So, I Had This Idea Of... Let's Cut All These Things In Half, And Show A Picture Of The Food In The Pan, In The Oven.

Regardless Of How It's Done, Transaction Costs Will Continue To Plummet As Computers Get More Powerful. Low Transaction Costs Are A Wonderful Thing If You're In The Transaction Business. They're Wonderful For Consumers Too, Making It Cheaper And Easier To Buy Things And Creating New Things To Buy.

Researchers Who Examined The Voting Records Of Wine Judges Found That 90 Percent Of The Time They Give Inconsistent Ratings To A Particular Wine When They Judge It On Multiple Occasions.

Software-industry Battles Are Fought By Highly Paid And Out-of-shape Nerds Furiously Pounding Computer Keyboards While They Guzzle Diet Coke. The Stakes Aren't Very Dramatic. Life? Liberty? The Pursuit Of Happiness? Nope, It's About Stock Options.

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?'

Suppose That 'unsolved Mysteries' Called You With News Of A Long-lost Identical Twin. Would That Suddenly Make You Less Of A Person, Less Of An Individual? It Is Hard To See How. So, Why Would A Clone Be Different? Your Clone Would Be Raised In A Different Era By Different People - Like The Lost Identical Twin, Only Younger Than You.

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?

Raw Lobster Tail, Freeze Dried, Is Amazing.

One Of The Ugly Secrets Of The Renewable-energy Industry Is That Its Products Make No Economic Sense Unless They Are Highly Subsidized.