Nathan Myhrvold Quotes
If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.
The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'
The whole hardware industry has experienced the phenomenon in which every time computers get cheaper, they appeal to a new set of users; every time they get more powerful, old customers upgrade.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
