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.
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.
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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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When you have a biblical idea of men's strength, you know that God only gives us anything good to be used for his purposes and mainly to serve others.
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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.
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If you declare Crocker's Rules, other people don't need to worry about being tactful to you. (You still need to worry about being tactful to them - Crocker's Rules only work one way.)
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I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.
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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.
