Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.Nathan Myhrvold
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
Taufik Hidayat -
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
Randall Munroe -
There is a lot of noise out there. I don't want to follow the trend - I want to create the trend.
Iman -
First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
Garry Shandling -
I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
Patricia Heaton -
I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
Harlan Coben
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
Fareed Zakaria -
I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
Bat for Lashes -
The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
Malcolm Bradbury -
When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
Wendy Kopp -
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
Sam Underwood
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
Wendell Berry -
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Garrison Keillor -
Family is very important to me because that is the footprint we perpetuate. That is, the ripple in the water when the rock first impacts the pool, and it is those waves, that energy that one produces, that determines our direction.
Larry Wilcox -
Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
Mahershala Ali -
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
Dan Quayle -
As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
Ted Deutch
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
Barry Commoner -
I assure you: If I were to hear a teacher raise a voice at a kid or anything, that goes against the model, and I would immediately address it.
Eva Moskowitz -
The best band in the world is Queen, definitely.
Matt Bellamy Muse -
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry.
Allen Tate -
I had a gun and I had to run and shoot, which is not easy.
Jimmy Fallon -
I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.
Nathan Myhrvold