Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I know exactly what my values are and what I love to do. That's worth additional years right there. I say no to a lot of stuff that would be easy money but deviates from my meaning of life.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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I'm either enjoying myself or I'm not. And if I'm not enjoying myself, something's gone terribly wrong.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions.
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It was all about flying round the world, working hard, being on the cover of Vogue, making money. It wasn't fun. It was exhausting, but I was young and convinced I knew best.
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Five wives can't all be wrong.
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I've never seen anyone handling pans in the streets of New York, and if I did I doubt I'd give them money, unless I needed a pan. I do give money to homeless people, whether they ask or no.
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I had immigrant grandparents who came to this country and came for religious freedom and loved it, never made any money, Bronx, Brooklyn, but loved America. And they told me every day it's the greatest country in the world.
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Being boring is just wrong, isn't it? You wouldn't have got anywhere being boring.
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Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
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When I was 28, I made this film called 'Drinking Buddies' that I starred in and produced, and we improvised the entire thing, and it was a complete exercise in freedom of expression in making something for only the purpose of making it, not for recognition or money or anything else, and it's still my favorite thing I've ever done.
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Money is a bubble that never pops. It's a consensus hallucination.
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People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.
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The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
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Why do women get paid less money? It doesn't make any sense.
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Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.
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I started off as a recording engineer and a beatmaker. I was this skater kid that would skateboard to auditions, and then I would use the money I'd make and buy a bunch of equipment and make a bunch of beats. I still am that kid, just with a little more money.
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The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.
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The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.
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Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!
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Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
