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
research want needs
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
secret ugly energy
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
smell kitchen lost
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
successful effectiveness suffering
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.
dna humanity world
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.
block gun gelatin
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
lobster tails freeze
Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
revolution technological
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
rights people next-level
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
technology night wind
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.
next steps patents
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in the case of patents, many that own them aren't in a good position to take the next step.
government may input
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?'
magic normal internet
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
home touching use
A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.