Quotes by Nathan Myhrvold

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Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft

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Common Themes

“The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel a million miles an hour, it would be shrunken down in s...”

— Nathan Myhrvold

Life Experience Law

“When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the library and got this whole pile of books. I'd love to say it all turned out...”

— Nathan Myhrvold

Love Home Great

“If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use...”

— Nathan Myhrvold

Good Sun Night

“The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make e...”

— Nathan Myhrvold

Science Problems Better

“Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your ...”

— Nathan Myhrvold

Powerful Your Dreams