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.
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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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People forget that writers start off being readers. We all love it when we find a terrific read, and we want to let people know about it.
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People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever, and now 'Hairspray' is being done at every school in Britain and America.
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While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also know that people are fickle, and when using something becomes too annoying, they stop.
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A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint.
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Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.
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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.