Nathan Myhrvold
Related It's Moore's Law, everything will be obsolete in 10 years - I'll be obsolete in 10 years... JERRY ZUCKER JOHN CARMACK MARVIN AMMORI S. E. HINTON IT is permeating more industries. Moore's Law knocks down simulation capabilities. We don't ... STEVE JURVETSON ALAN LIGHTMAN BEN E. KING MATT GROENING It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proo... JAN BREWER ALEX TABARROK I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I w... CELIA IMRIE KATE WINSLET JAMES MARSDEN The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens w... BASSEM YOUSSEF If I could live in New York the rest of my life, I absolutely would, but it's also prohibitively... SAMANTHA BEE GARY WRIGHT Everybody gets talked about. Jesus Christ got talked about. It's just what happens. It's jus... BLAC CHYNA KATEE SACKHOFF If it was just based on actual dollars, we would probably be in New York, no question about it. BILL CRYER If you told me to sit in a room, and you had a million dollars cash stacked right there and said, &#... TIM HOWARD JOSEPH P. KENNEDY We shouldn't waste any more time in making sure that democracy is properly rooted in our politic... AHMET NECDET SEZNER ZARA LARSSON Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp... S. J. ROZAN BILL GATES DAVID BOWIE RASHIDA JONES I've been playing both sides of the law my entire career. It's not really surprising for me ... IAN ANTHONY DALE REM KOOLHAAS The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it... DAN GILROY I grew up partially in L.A. and partially in New York. In L.A., anything goes because it's reall... TESSA THOMPSON Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece... DOUGLAS WILDER My experience of life is that it's very fragmented; certain kinds of things happen, and in anoth... JASPER JOHNS CARRIE FISHER QUENTIN TARANTINO JOHN CARMACK I don't aspire to be a sex icon, I don't know why anyone would. It's an uncomfortable po... BILLY HOWLE Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it... DAVID CARRADINE BONNIE SOMERVILLE CHRISTINA ENGELA BILL GATES It's such an overused phrase: 'to be part of the conversation.' But it's true. It is... DAMIAN LEWIS ERIC SCHNEIDERMAN JASON RITTER DAVID GERROLD It's been fascinating working on a set in New York. Just to be in the thick of it is really inte... JESSICA COLLINS EDDIE VEDDER A lot of Polish and Russian Jews had this experience: they would emigrate, thinking they were on the... ROSEMARY MAHONEY Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a cons... WYLIE DUFRESNE JULIA STILES JIM HARRISON VICTORIA LEGRAND ADRIANNE PALICKI LOUIS V. GERSTNER, JR. MARY-KATE OLSEN I really believe that you grow up a certain way in New York. There's a New York morality, a sens... JAMES CAAN TOM WAITS TED TURNER JACK WHITE PHIL COLLINS NICK HANAUER SOPHIE HANNAH I absolutely fell in love with Moscow. It's one of those places where you can't help but tri... DANIEL SILVA You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In ever... TIBOR FISCHER KYLIE JENNER HARRISON FORD STEVEN WRIGHT RALPH LAUREN EARL CAMPBELL JIMMY PAGE JENNIFER JASON LEIGH TIA MOWRY DAVID MCCULLOUGH It's an interesting dynamic living in New York in general as a Boston fan. It's kind of fun ... KATIE NOLAN I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. ... OLYMPIA DUKAKIS RICHARD DEAN ANDERSON AIMEE MANN DANICA PATRICK SASHA GREY MARC NEWSON This would be the biggest turning point in the history of our film industry. We're talking about an ... JUDE HAGIN It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just ... HANS ZIMMER WARIS AHLUWALIA You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sente... LEWIS BLACK SHARON STONE I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's a... RUTINA WESLEY RENE REDZEPI A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck. ADAM CLAYTON It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren&... LAILA ROBINS I used to play in the subway. If everyone tossed in a quarter, at the end of the day it would add up... NELLIE MCKAY JIM CROCE GEORGE WALD What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. I... BERNHARD SCHLINK I've said before, the number one thing that we have to work on is protecting the gay community f... FOSTER FRIESS ANDY WARHOL JEFFREY KLUGER I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it... ANTON CORBIJN
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NATHAN WOLFE The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more ... NATHAN WOLFE If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you ge... NATHAN WOLFE Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've di... NATHAN WOLFE Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matt... NATHAN WOLFE About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've e... NATHAN WOLFE We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that... NATHAN WOLFE We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like... NATHAN WOLFE The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life ... NATHAN WOLFE Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes ha... NATHAN WOLFE There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonal... NATHAN WOLFE The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had alread... NATHAN WOLFE I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importan... NATHAN WOLFE With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But... NATHAN WOLFE We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era wit... NATHAN WOLFE Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it'... NATHAN WOLFE We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, bu... NATHAN WOLFE As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. NATHAN WOLFE Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people ... NATHAN WOLFE We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV f... NATHAN WOLFE If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outwei... NATHAN WOLFE If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their tim... NATHAN WOLFE When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When... NATHAN WOLFE So many people have asked me about getting their own LEGO Oscar that I submitted it to LEGO Ideas so... NATHAN SAWAYA I do hear from people at my exhibition about seeing these things made from this toy from their child... NATHAN SAWAYA I split my commission and personal work about 50 per cent each. It is important to get that balance ... NATHAN SAWAYA I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. E... NATHAN SAWAYA I am an artist who works with Lego. NATHAN SAWAYA What do young, budding artists do, but go to law school? I had creative periods now and again, but i... NATHAN SAWAYA I've made a bit of a career taking daunting projects out of Lego. I've done things like a di... NATHAN SAWAYA I'm an independent artist, but I do have a good business relationship with Lego, since I'm a... NATHAN SAWAYA My work sells for £10,000-plus, but my most lucrative piece was a private project that was sol... NATHAN SAWAYA I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And... NATHAN SAWAYA When I was in South Africa, I was meeting with people who never heard of Lego bricks. And yet, when ... NATHAN SAWAYA If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody wi... NATHAN SAWAYA The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special fo... NATHAN SAWAYA I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I ... NATHAN SAWAYA 'The Art of the Brick' is an exhibition I've done where I've taken some works of art... NATHAN SAWAYA There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So... NATHAN SAWAYA There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But i... NATHAN SAWAYA I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I&#... NATHAN SAWAYA Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibi... NATHAN SAWAYA I was so worried when I left 'GH:' so scared I'd never work again. NATHAN PARSONS As a kid, I was obsessed with myths and legends and the haunting beauty of gothic stories. NATHAN PARSONS In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - y... NATHAN PARSONS I've used my time at 'GH' to learn some discipline. NATHAN PARSONS When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of... NATHAN PARSONS I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own... NATHAN PARSONS I had auditioned for 'The Vampire Diaries' years ago before 'The Originals' happened... NATHAN PARSONS I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed ... NATHAN PARSONS Honestly, I'm not interested in gossip. Thing is, I know a lot of successful actors, and in hopi... NATHAN PARSONS I probably use email the most. I dunno if that counts as an app. I try to stay off my electronics as... NATHAN PARSONS The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult. NATHAN OUTTERIDGE Someone asked me the other day, 'What is your most memorable moment in your career?' and by ... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE Capsizes kind of go hand in hand with 49er racing. I've had four to five capsizes in races and s... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit. NATHAN OUTTERIDGE The thing I enjoy about going fast is the risk-reward scenario you get. If you make good decisions, ... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE I've been sailing from the age of 2, and apparently, when I was 4, I told my dad, 'I know ho... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins... NATHAN OUTTERIDGE People have to do things in their own time, and that's what I did. NATHAN LANE It's a cliche, but there really is no handbook about the celebrity thing; you have to figure it ... NATHAN LANE All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that. NATHAN LANE I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk. NATHAN LANE He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Denn... NATHAN LANE As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then ... NATHAN LANE 'The Producers' is a sort of a once in a lifetime kind of phenomenon, and I was grateful to ... NATHAN LANE The reason I was in most of the movies I've done is that they paid for me to be in the theater. NATHAN LANE Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped ... NATHAN LANE There doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground with me. NATHAN LANE There are some people that the press like to pick on and not just the gay press, but the press in ge... NATHAN LANE I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date. NATHAN LANE People always think I'm Jewish and changed my last name from Rabinowitz. NATHAN LANE I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even tho... NATHAN LANE It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don'... NATHAN LANE Relationships, for me, have been elusive. And I would say mostly it's been my fault. I was alway... NATHAN LANE I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining ... NATHAN LANE I have my aluminum siding business, and that's going like a house afire. NATHAN LANE There's not a day in my life I'm not proud of being gay, but I just wasn't ready for tha... NATHAN LANE I seem to always inspire a strong reaction one way or the other. NATHAN LANE Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math! NATHAN LANE Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that. NATHAN LANE I am not a sad clown. I am not a sad clown. NATHAN LANE One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love ... NATHAN LANE I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing s... NATHAN KRESS I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions. NATHAN KRESS Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memori... NATHAN KRESS My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulatio... NATHAN KRESS I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all... NATHAN KRESS I'm thankful to say that I already have my dream job. I wouldn't trade it for anything. NATHAN KRESS My new obsession is 'Storage Wars.' I don't know how such a simple show concept can be s... NATHAN KRESS I got good grades in math, but I never really enjoyed it. My favorite part of math was algebra, but ... NATHAN KRESS I'm an outdoorsy guy, but I also enjoy the average teenager stuff - video games, movies, hanging... NATHAN KRESS My favorite thing about acting is that I can play all kinds of different people. Frankly, I don'... NATHAN KRESS I definitely feel like kids do look up to me as a potential role model. It's an honor, but it ca... NATHAN KRESS Everyone else in the 'iCarly' cast can operate on 5 hours of sleep, but not so for 'Old ... NATHAN KRESS I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments. NATHAN KIRSH Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - ... NATHAN KIRSH All of my businesses are profitable. NATHAN KIRSH I want money; I just don't want that money lying around. NATHAN KIRSH I like to see a tidy shop, and I want to see my investments well managed. NATHAN KIRSH My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old info... NATHAN FILLION I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talkin... NATHAN FILLION My guiltiest pleasure? 'Untamed & Uncut'. Videos of people being attacked by animals. Ye... NATHAN FILLION I'm comfortable only when there's a mutual attraction. That's what anyone wants. If I fi... NATHAN FILLION I like doing things where I can get dirty, work with my hands, and use power tools. Last weekend, I ... NATHAN FILLION No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thi... NATHAN FILLION I don't expect anybody to know who I am. NATHAN FILLION I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough. NATHAN FILLION Oh, boy. I'm still in touch with about 90 percent of my exes. They would describe me as being un... NATHAN FILLION I told myself a while back, 'Love what you do, but don't fall in love with what you do.'... NATHAN FILLION You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have... NATHAN FILLION I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing a... NATHAN FILLION I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm... NATHAN FILLION You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a... NATHAN FILLION You know, Castle's the kind of guy that when he meets somebody, that's a connection for him.... NATHAN FILLION I'm a plethora of stolen jokes and kitschy references. NATHAN FILLION I tell you, 'Firefly'? Best job I ever had. Heartbroken when it was canceled, but had it not... NATHAN FILLION I've got a fantastic life. I enjoy what I do for a living. I see the blessings; I'm not blin... NATHAN FILLION It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. Whe... NATHAN FILLION You know, I endeavor to be more like my older brother. He's very magnetic. He's actually ver... NATHAN FILLION I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle&... NATHAN FILLION I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a rea... NATHAN FILLION I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute. NATHAN FILLION I like to say there's certain things you can't take back: One of them is 'I love you,... NATHAN FILLION
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