Favorites Quote's
Author
Topic's
Blog
It Is Better To Predict Dramatic Things That Don't Happen Than Boring Things That Do.
-Nathan Myhrvold
Please Wait....
Translating....
Select Image
Download as Image
English
Spanish
French
German
Hindi
Chinese
It Is Better To Predict
Nathan Myhrvold
It Is Better To Predict Dramatic Things That Don't Happen Than Boring Things That Do.
Views: 49
Topic
Dramatic
Boring
Happens
More From Nathan Myhrvold
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 Great. It Didn't. But, Sort Of, From That Point On, Whenever There Was Serious Cooking At Home, I Was The One Who Did It.
Mother
Book
Home
Computing Has Gone From Something Tiny And Specialized To Something That Affects Every Walk Of Life. It Doesn't Make Sense Anymore To Think Of It As Just One Discipline. I Expect To See Separate Departments Of User Interface, For Example, To Start Emerging At Universities.
Thinking
Discipline
Tiny
My Career At Microsoft Really Was Getting In The Way Of My Cooking.
Careers
Cooking
Microsoft
It's Impossible That We're Alone In The Universe. Every Time We Think We're More Special Than Others, We're Proven Wrong.
Thinking
Special
Impossible
Now, To Find Dinosaurs, You Hike Around In Horrible Conditions Looking For A Dinosaur. It Sounds Really Dumb, But That's What It Is. It's Horrible Conditions, Because Wherever You Have Nice Weather, Plants Grow, And You Don't Get Any Erosion, And You Don't See Any Dinosaurs.
Nice
Weather
Erosion
Trending Author
Jan Karon
Rod Blagojevich
Horatio Nelson
Lucille Ball
Bindi Irwin
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Category
Information