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
careers cooking way
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
research want needs
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
problem posing plans
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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.
giving people patents
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.
smell kitchen lost
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
safety heat microbiology
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
running night want
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
pain risk pay
Risk is the sort of word that is easy to discuss upfront but tough to handle when it comes time to pay the piper. There will always be some who wimp out and second-guess when the pain hits, but that is a childish reaction.
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.
jobs men hands
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
secret recipes inventor
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
discipline want debate
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.