Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
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I do movies that I would like to go and see. I think that's a good barometer of how I choose films. I like going to these movies. Our job is to make sure the audience gets their $16 worth. That's my job.
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?
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When you put the pressure on yourself, it's not good. If you fight afraid to lose, you wind up not fighting that good.
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As wild as I was, when the cops show up, and suddenly you're being handcuffed, it's so deeply shocking and terrifying, the loss of freedom.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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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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If you represent everyone, in some ways you represent no one. You're un-owned.
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To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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I will always find even the worst paintings that attempt some kind of representation better than the best invented paintings.
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We ought to open up energy innovation across the board and - and remove the barriers to every form of energy.
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I reject the insurance model. I think we should have a free-market approach to healthcare.
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My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
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If you look up the definition of greatness in the dictionary, it will say Michael Jordan.
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I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
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Yeah, that's what kind of, we get the idea a little bit yeah, because other people from different countries also try as hard as they can to get a medal or a gold medal in the Olympic Games. And you know, if they can work hard, we can work hard as well.
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I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
