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.

  

  Mandy Moore
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• Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Women
  • Song
  • Imagination

• What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

  

  Irv Kupcinet
  • God
  • Society
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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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
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• It would be hard to ignore the absence of democracy in any Arab nation.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• In Germany I am not so famous.

  

  Hans Berger
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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.

  

  Edith Pearlman
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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.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
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• It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Unique
  • Idea
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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.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • India
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• I think having children is the most amazing thing.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Children
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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.

  

  Kara Swisher
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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.

  

  Sam Brownback
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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.

  

  Larry David
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• Sure I'm sad I've never made it to being a big superstar, but I feel absolutely no bitterness. I came out of a town with 250 people and what I've done is extraordinary.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • People
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• Impostor syndrome, or feeling like a fraud at work, at home, or anywhere else in your life, will probably affect you at some point.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Life
  • Work
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• In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government.

  

  Alexei Mordashov
  • Good

• Whatever rappers wear is cool to people.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • People
  • Cool

• The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Believe
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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.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Early
  • Software