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Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

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.

Nathan Myhrvold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 3, 1959

Topics

Good Technology Moment Sun Wind You

People are working harder and harder than ever before and barely staying in place.

Jim Talent

People Place Working Staying Than

I know one author whose royalty income has been halved from £34,000 a year to £16,000.

Tony Bradman

Royalty Year Know Income Been Whose

The level of potential physical productivity of a society depends on both the development of the intellect of its members, and a minimal standard of both demographic characteristics and of consumption.

Robert Trout

Society Potential Development Level

Television has made places look alike, and it has transformed the way we see. A whole generation of Americans, maybe two, has grown up looking at the world through a lens.

Ronald Steel

World Looking Generation Look Lens

The people that make this country work, the people who pay on their mortgages, the people getting up and going to work, striving in this recession to not participate in it, they're not the enemy. They're the people that hire you. They're the people that are going to give you a job.

Rush Limbaugh

Work Job People You Enemy Striving

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Talent Mediocre Gilded Tomb

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Diogenes

Tongue Talk Listen More Two Ears

It was very liberating, living in a foreign country, a place where everything was new and strange - the food, the customs, the climate, everything.

Deborah Moggach

Food Country Place New Living Where

Something like reading depends a lot on just having people around you who talk to you and read you books, more than sitting down and, say, doing a reading drill when you're 3 or 4 years old.

Alison Gopnik

People Reading Doing You Down Say

The evils that arise to us from the structure of the material universe are neither trivial nor few, yet the history of political society sufficiently shows that man is, of all other beings, the most formidable enemy to man.

William Godwin

History Man Society Political Enemy

I'm a person who tries not to have regrets.

Rick Astley

Person Regrets Who Tries

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

Ryan Lochte

Will Banana Head Up Jumping Pop