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Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

American - Businessman | August 3, 1959 -

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

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Money Making Money Wrong More Than

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

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America Earth Prize Checks Most Our

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.

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Food Black Better Doing Barbecue

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

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Better Boring Predict Happen Things

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.

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World Legacy Capitalism Create Would

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.

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Time Pain Tough Easy Will Childish

We collectively have a special place in our heart for the manned space flight program - Apollo nostalgia is one element, but that is only part of it. American culture worships explorers - look at the fame of Lewis and Clark, for example. The American people want to think of themselves as supporting exploration.

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Heart Culture Space People Think

The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

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Words Internet Magic Protect Normal

Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

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New Technological Anything Market

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

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Power Time Day Night Energy Meaning

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

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Innovation Best Cooking Past Talent

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

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Culture Politics Religion Ideas Way

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