Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
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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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
Warren Spector
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots -
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
Ed Harris -
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
Wendell Berry -
c is the idea that we can create devices and machines all the way down to the nanometer scale, which is a billionth of a meter, about half the width of a human DNA molecule.
Paul McEuen
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
Garry Shandling -
You have to enjoy yourself when you go to the movies. People don't want to spend their hard earned money to simply go see a history lesson.
F. Gary Gray -
With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.
Chris Raschka -
One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.
Zachary Schomburg -
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