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.

  

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

  

  Irv Kupcinet
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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
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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.

  

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

  

  Victor Vasarely
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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.

  

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• I am from Karnal, India.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
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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.

  

  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.

  

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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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• In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.

  

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• My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

  

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• As a cosigner of the Veterans' Bill of Rights, I'm committed to making sure that veterans' issues remain a top priority in Congress.

  

  John Delaney
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• You can't exactly do it from your hotel room. It's the weather; you've got to get out in it. You're telling people that there are 70 mile-per-hour winds. So it's like, 'Let's prove it.'

  

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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
  • Software
  • Early