Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.Nathan Myhrvold
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
Sam Altman -
Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
Barbara Kingsolver -
You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
Aaron Neville -
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming -
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
Yoko Ono -
The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
Warren Spector
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
Imogen Poots -
It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
Ed Harris -
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
Hakeem Jeffries -
I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
Iris Apfel -
I love bayou life.
Parker Posey -
I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
Adam Lambert -
Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
Lance Henriksen -
Doing improv really got me started in my whole career.
Lauren Lapkus
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When I have no appointments, I spend the day in pajamas and go to the dog park in pajamas. I'm very casual.
Alexandra Daddario -
It's been really cool to me to watch someone like Sam Hunt, whose lyrics and roots are in country but you can hear that he listens to Drake and Justin Timberlake - and that's OK. It allows songwriters to be more honest because it's like, 'This is who I'm listening to.'
Kelsea Ballerini -
In the Internet world, both ends essentially pay for access to the Internet system, and so the providers of access get compensated by the users at each end. My big concern is that suddenly access providers want to step in the middle and create a toll road to limit customers' ability to get access to services of their choice even though they have paid for access to the network in the first place.
Vint Cerf -
We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.
Marshall Goldsmith -
Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.
Nathan Myhrvold