Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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I think having children is the most amazing thing.
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I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.
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I want to expand the compassionate conservative agenda. I believe life begins in the womb, and we should protect it. But it extends to a child in Darfur or someone living in poverty.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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When I was living in New York, there was a lot of screaming in my life. I would just get into these altercations all the time. Being in public, dealing with shopkeepers, just trying to cross the street - things like that.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with Broadway cast recordings, and I would totally mimic and memorize every little choice that these actors made.
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Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.
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I hate karaoke. I don't want to sing karaoke, and I don't want to listen to people sing karaoke.
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
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I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.
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In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
