Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
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You've got to be taught to hate and fear.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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Oracle's latest database, version 12c, was specifically designed for the cloud. Oracle 12c makes all your Oracle applications multitenant applications without you having to make any changes whatsoever to your applications.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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Epic were adamant that I should carry on being me. They liked the way I look, my clothes, hats... nothing's changed really.
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A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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Life's a bit like mountaineering - never look down.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.
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I went to find myself and save myself by being an agent.
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I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.
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As a woman, you're not accessible to every world.
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Look at kids playing with blocks. I think it's in everyone's DNA to want to be a builder.
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I'll be the first one to admit that if I have conclusions based on faulty premises, then let me know about that, and I'll be the first one to change it.
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Quality that significantly exceeds the customer's expectations doesn't seem to pay off. This 'delight the customer' stuff isn't rewarding. One has to be careful about delighting customers too often, because it sort of reshapes customer expectations.
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India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.
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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.
