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The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

Nathan Myhrvold's Popular Quotes

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

- Nathan Myhrvold

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.

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Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

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Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

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Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

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It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

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Software sucks because users demand it to.

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Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional …

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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

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