Best quotes by Nathan Myhrvold on People
Checkout quotes by Nathan Myhrvold on People
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‟ Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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‟ Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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‟ Being a visionary is a new profession, but it is really just a variant on fortunetelling, which may be the world's oldest. And its marketing appeal is similar - people will pay for reassurance about the unknown.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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‟ 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.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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‟ When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
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‟ If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
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‟ Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
- Nathan Myhrvold
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‟ Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
- Nathan Myhrvold