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.
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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.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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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.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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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.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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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.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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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.
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I love bayou life.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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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.
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My father was a no-nonsense, dedicated, and focused minister, and there was usually a sermon he needed to prepare for or a Scripture he needed to study, and that always came first.
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American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.
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I like healthful foods, but I'm from the Midwest, so I like food that's been around longer.
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I used to be sick of the backroads of Minnesota. I had to drive 30 miles to get home every day, take the schoolbus for two hours. But to drive through America and see the backroads, from Nashville to Memphis, Lovick to New Mexico, was incredible. It was probably the greatest trip of my life.
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The question was, in a sense, at Princeton Review, how much value was I adding as a public company CEO. I was adding less than other people might've... I think you want to move on when you've given your best work and then feel that you're not going to add as much value moving forward.
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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.
