Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

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• Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

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  Computer, Programming, Software

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• Software sucks because users demand it to.

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  Funny Inspirational, Demand, Programming

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• Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

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  Art, Knowing, Cooking

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking". Michael Y. Park, www.epicurious.com.

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• Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

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  Wine, Years, Kitchen

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• Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

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  Want, Excellent, Predictions

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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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  People, Important, Threatening

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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.

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  Hurt, Thinking, People

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• Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

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  Crazy, Ideas, Foundation

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• Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

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  Thinking, Asking Why, Kitchen

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• The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

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  Apples, Too Late, Littles

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• The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approach is to create food that is quite different than anything that has existed before.

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  Two, Cooking, Technique

  "Nathan Myhrvold on Modernist Cuisine 'Culinary History Has To Be Analyzed Like Art History'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. April 21, 2011.

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• Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

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  War, Leader, Victory

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• I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this amazing experience.

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  Art, Drama, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• 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.

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  Dna, Humanity, World

  "Human Clones: Why Not?" by Nathan Myhrvold, www.slate.com. March 14, 1997.

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• The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

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  Names, Scientific Method, Foundation

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

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  Revolution, Technological

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• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

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  Couple, Fun, Technology

  "Could this laser zap malaria?". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2010.

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• Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

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  Water, Cooking, Energy

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• Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel, you're able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present.

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  Grandma, Water, Interesting

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

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  Dramatic, Boring, Happens

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• The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

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  Cooking, Mind, Digital

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• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

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  Want, Chef, Popularity

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• The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

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  Government, Evil, Democracy

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• If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

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  Smell, Kitchen, Lost

  "Nathan Myhrvold’s Counterintuitive Advice On Red Wine, Foie Gras, Salad" by Joe Satran, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out great. It didn't. But, sort of, from that point on, whenever there was serious cooking at home, I was the one who did it.

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  Mother, Book, Home

  "Can I Eat That?". Interview with David Pogue, www.pbs.org. October 31, 2012.

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