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
create helluva invention rate
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
age wonderful
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
bill culture determines gates
The personality of Bill Gates determines the culture of Microsoft.
focusing theory worked
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
long people dollars
The first thing that is not obvious to people is global warming is a less-than-1% effect. It's like being shortchanged at the bank by a penny every dollar. Over a long period of time with lots of transactions, that piles up.
eliminate involves operator
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
century dilemma pay
The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
software gas containers
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
couple fun technology
My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
funny-inspirational demand programming
Software sucks because users demand it to.
scotch alcohol taste
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.
want excellent predictions
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
water cooking three
Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.