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Nathan Myhrvold

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government’s ‘output?’

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Records were replaced by CDs, and lead type died in favor of computerized fonts. However, each had a 100-year ride of popularity, so you can’t feel too bad for them.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Technological ‘revolutions’ don’t really overthrow anything – they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat – and who perform other acts of derring-do. This kind of talk sounds great in the boardroom, and, for that matter, in the bookstore, where dozens of authors counsel would-be corporate warriors.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

We’re more familiar with what economists call an English auction – prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

The magic words ‘on the Internet,’ if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

A person’s basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Suppose that ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people – like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

Suppose that every prospective parent in the world stopped having children naturally, and instead produced clones of themselves. What would the world be like in another 20 or 30 years? The answer is: much like today. Cloning would only copy the genetic aspects of people who are already here.

– Nathan Myhrvold

Nathan Myhrvold

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

– Nathan Myhrvold

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