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 like to prove people wrong.
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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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My parents didn't have any money.
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The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
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As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
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I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
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God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.
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Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
