Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
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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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
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You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your mind still thinks that, but then you go out and actually try to do it, it's kind of scary.
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Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
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I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.
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To the best of my knowledge, my youngest reader is 10 and the oldest is 95.
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Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves.
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First, I thought Twitter was some kind of hybrid car being developed by Government Motors. Then I thought it was a new bite-size snack combining what's best of the Frito and the Cheeto. Then I found out it was me. On a laptop. At the U.S. Open. Having fun.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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There was this song I was working on called 'Swing.' It was almost finished, but there was something missing, and I couldn't for the life of me figure it out. And then this little piece of information - this little tweet - came to the forefront of my mind.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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We know that often holding those who have carried out mass atrocities accountable is at times our best tool to prevent future atrocities.
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The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
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All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor.
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
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Cryptocurrency currencies take the concept of money, and they take it native into computers, where everything is settled with computers and doesn't require external institutions or trusted third parties to validate things.
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That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.
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Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.
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Success can be obviously a two way street.
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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.
