Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Jewish, black, Filipino, whatever the specificity is, it's specificity that makes a good story. And I think people are tired of seeing the same old shtick on network television. It's just a group of white people hanging out talking about their jobs. Who cares? We've seen that.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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I am young, and I think all young guys would love to play a superhero - any superhero - it doesn't matter. I could be a superhero that would just turn into a big blob or something like that, but I could tell all the ladies, 'Hey, I am superhero!'
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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I find celebrity really scary.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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The biggest question I have is if you're a rock singer or a rock 'n' roll band, or if you're a pop singer... if you've made your way in another genre of music and now you want to make a country record, why? That's my question. Why?
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I was a good student - a geek, really - editor of the school paper, thought I was going to go to university.
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If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!
