If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
From Nathan Myhrvold
We should have more invention.
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 dreams.
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
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