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.

- Nathan Myhrvold

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

- Nathan Myhrvold

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.

- Nathan Myhrvold

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

- Nathan Myhrvold

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

- Nathan Myhrvold

Software sucks because users demand it to.

- Nathan Myhrvold

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

- Nathan Myhrvold

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.

- Nathan Myhrvold