Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.
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I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.
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One of the important lessons of the Internet is, how easy it is to get things done completely shapes what gets created. For that reason, technologies like Amazon's cloud service are very important. Even if they aren't technically impressive, they make things easy to do.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.
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Bald is the new black!
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You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.'
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Their chief residence was Bagdad, where they remained until the eleventh century, an age fatal in Oriental history, from the disasters of which the Princes of the Captivity were not exempt.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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I don't even know what my favourite food is anymore, as they are all such bad foods!
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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I did 14 movies in six years, I had a cartoon TV show, and I don't want to do that again. I just want to make unique pieces of art. That's why I quit everything when I was 14 and sat around for eight years before I did another movie.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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The more I learned about Shoeless Joe, the more I felt he was maligned.
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Using a service such as Chegg.com, students can save on average more than $600 a year when they rent textbooks over purchasing them.
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We won't sit idly by when a crime is committed in the real world. So why should we when it happens in cyber space?
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You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.
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Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
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What made it possible for me to exercise freedom of choice also made it impossible to know the future. Conversely, now that I know the future, I would never act contrary to that future. ... Those who've read the Book of Ages never admit to it.
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I always loved television. I always loved movies.
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
