Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I like to discover new things.
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One rose says more than the dozen.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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I'm not a collector. I toss things out all the time.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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Through Hamas, Iran has been able to buy itself a seat on the table in talking about the Palestinian issue. And, as a result, through Hamas it does play a role in the issue of the Palestinians, as strange as that should sound.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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I thought I would lose, so I didn't prepare a speech.
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I thought of myself as an outsider in a lot of ways as I was growing up. Not in a bad way; more as an observer. I often find myself thinking as an observer of science fiction rather than as a participant.
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During the Cold War, the U.S. instituted a policy of sending money to governments in poor countries to buy their political loyalty. While studies show that sending aid to foreign governments creates allegiance, it does not lead to economic progress.
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Take responsibility. Step up and step in. Because at the end of the day, folks, we are our behaviors.
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A relationship is more of an assignment than a choice. We can walk away from the assignment, but we cannot walk away from the lessons it presents. We stay with a relationship until a lesson is learned, or we simply learn it another way.
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The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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I was elected to solve problems, and I don't think it's conservative to have bad roads; I don't think it's conservative to have bad schools. I don't think it's conservative to have to go through budget crises every two years. So I'm taking the difficult issues straight on. That's what I was elected to do.
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
