inventors

"... I was interested in cooking long before I even knew there was a computer. ... I started, I think when I was nine years old — I discovered s at the local library. And I announced to my mother that I was going to cook , all by myself. So I got this armload of cookbooks, and I cooked Thanksgiving dinner. It wasn't that great by my current standards, but it wasn't such a disaster that it turned me away from the topic."

"Myhrvold, whose favortie adjective is "cool," does not conform to the Microsoft stereotype, although he has a master's degrees in geophysics and and also in mathematical economics, and a doctorale in and mathematical physics. His seem endless: he is an amateur (hence the dinosaurs, a cosmologist, a zoologist, an environmentalist, a , a and , a driver, a er, a , a , a , and an . He is an accomplished , too."

"Myhrvold first made his name in technology: he became the first chief technology officer of Microsoft after the company acquired his software firm in 1986, and remained there until 1999. His scholarly credential run far and wide, from degrees in math­e­mat­ics, geo­physics, and space physics from UCLA (he started college at 14) to a doctorate in physics from Princeton University earned at 23 and studies with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University in England and at La Varenne Cooking School in France. Before , he spent two years as a at Rover’s in . He has also functioned as chief gastronomic officer for . He has nurtured his love of food and science-inspired cooking techniques thanks to numerous travels to the world’s best restaurants, which allowed him to get to know many of their s. The publication of ' is the culmination of many years spent researching, writing, photographing, and editing, and even launching his own publishing company, so that the book would correspond exactly to his standards. The Main Course recently spoke to Myhrvold about the book and how he made it happen, helped by co-authors Chris Young and alumnus Maxime Bilet and a large team at the Cooking Lab."

"... Find something you really love. ... Don’t be afraid to change your mind if you find that you really love something else more. ... It really helps if you can find people who are supportive."

"Passion is the fuel that still keeps me moving even in the absence of tangible results."

"The twilight of the twentieth century is driven by a mixture of technology and resources very like that which drove nineteenth-century America. This time, it is and software rather than and steel. Instead of s, we have a that links us as the railroads did, but at the speed of light. And, once again, this change is being driven by people from around the world, making possible an unprecedented level of economic growth. Workers may start out sewing , but chip plants and more diverse enterprises will eventually follow. In the nineteenth century, you had to cross an ocean to find economic opportunity, freedom from repression, or a respite from famine. The pioneers of the twenty-first century can stay put—their diaspora is to cyberspace. Still, we may not be able to gauge the real impact of the information revolution for fifty or sixty years more. Consider our cities, which in many cases have been transformed into artifacts of industrialization. Will large numbers of people begin to telecommute and, in that way, return to a pastoral America? Or will the cities somehow become even more necessary to our lives? Technomania, like its industrial equivalent in 1897, is a reminder that all this lies just beyond our knowing. What has happened already is bound to be very small in comparison to what lies ahead."

"I believe that the disorder is a fundamental state of the universe because it contributes to its harmony."

"If the statue of liberty was a prominent symbol of freedom since the 19th century, the lithium battery becomes the one of the 21st century."

"Technology contains no inherent moral directive—it empowers people, whatever their intent, good or evil. This has always been true: when , the ancient world got s and awls, but also swords and s. The novelty of our present situation is that modern technology can provide small groups of people with much greater lethality than ever before. We now have to worry that private parties might gain access to weapons that are are as destructive as—or possibly even more destructive than—those held by any . A handful of people, perhaps even a single individual, could have the ability to kill millions or billions. Indeed, it is possible, from a technological standpoint, to kill every man, woman, and child on earth. The gravity of the situation is so extreme that getting the concept across without seeming silly or alarmist is challenging. Just thinking about the subject with any degree of seriousness numbs the mind."

"I could not be able to persevere in my field if I did not have a great passion for what I was doing."

"Despite the risks of explosion, lithium-ion batteries remain the best on the market."

"The cost of carrying will weigh heavily on ers of all sorts. successully beat small town merchants because they created a vastly more efficient warehousing, ordering and inventory carrying system, driven largely by a superior . A 'virtual Wal-Mart' which presents goods directly to customers on the Internet, or via in physical store loactions, could extend this model even further."

"To succeed in one’s career, we also need to be tolerant towards others."

"A true Modernist revolution in food has begun only recently, as s such as began consciously developing gastronomic experiences that transform meals into dialogues between chef and diner. Avant-garde cooking emphasizes novel, unconventional presentation of familiar flavor themes—the by evoking diners’ memories of past meals while taking the dishes in novel directions. A meal at or other Modernist restaurants often exposes conventions that guests do not even realize exist until the innovative food violates them. Like other good art, Modernist cuisine is challenging and provocative. Dozens of chefs around the world are now advancing this culinary movement as it follows a trajectory that is similar, in many ways, to the Modernist transformations of other cultural disciplines. Like those predecessor movements, Modernist cuisine has faced some resistance and criticism. But it has arrived."

"Without them, there would be no Smartphone or electric vehicle."

"It was the writer's fortune to witness the culmination of what may be termed the Golden Age of Wood Engraving in the United States; to be present at the birth of photoengraving; to have taken an active part in the struggle for supremacy between wood engraving and photoengraving; to regretfully witness the decline of wood engraving, and to contribute somewhat to the success and popularizing of what is now included in the generic term, "Processwork.""

"I like to think that I had no other wealth besides my work. And I have a titanic ambition: all my life I have been the first. At boarding school, at my doctorate, always. Some people seek early satisfaction, and that's not right. You have to give first and then wait!"

"Those of us who have witnessed the marvellous development of the great motion picture industry, who have perhaps played in our childhood with the strangely named toys, which produced the crude effects of movement of a few printed figures on a short strip of paper, have lived through the most astonishing drama of all that the moving picture world has produced. Its own development to one of the principal industries of the world is a great romance. It is a romance told by thousands of films all over the civilized world; every film is a short chapter in the great story."

"Alumnus Jeremiah Thoronka makes Forbes Africa 30 Under 30 list"

"Be ready to live up to the challenge and demonstrate your strength"

"Failure does not define you, what matters is how you get up and respond to the challenge"

"Just do it"

"Surround yourself with people who always uplift you and push you to challenge yourself."

"It is important for education systems everywhere to encourage creativity and foster the 21st century skills that people can apply in their lives."

"I want to ensure that we are truly making a difference in the lives of young people and, through them, the world"

"Young people need real-life examples of where their education could take them"

"It is my visison to build a sustainable energy sector while leading the quest to change Africa into an energy hub by creating access to efficient energy solutions with relentless focus on mitigating greenhouse emisions"

"I have first-hand experience of growing up without energy or electricity"

"Leadership is and art rather than a science"

"My idea of leadership is being able to inspire others, to motivate, to communicate, to set a vision, to respect others and of course to lead by example"

"There are many before you who almost gave up, but who are now celebrating their success stories"

"I believe that Africa can be transformed by learning new habits, and new disciplines"

"Education is not just about getting excellent grades. It is about obtaining skills that you can apply to your life and career"

"I will continue to aspire and refuse to succumb or settle for anything less"

"The future is green if we start realising and financing Africa’s energy revolution"

"Daily determination with the cultivation of a deep- set value system is transforming me into a leader"

"Based on my own experience, it will be wiser to say that leaders can be made"

"The Sun is not always shining, water is drying up, fossil fuels are not always going to be used, but people are always moving"

"I had three brothers and a sister, who died at about six weeks of age. I was the elder sister and I used my age to my maximum advantage. But I also was expected to, because as I got older and my mom worked, she needed me to help out. I had to boss my brothers sometimes because I was left in charge. For example, during high school, I was in complete charge of the household during one summer."

"I live in Los Angeles, in the Eagle Rock neighborhood, for people who are familiar with Los Angeles. I was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma in 1933. My birthday is October 9th. In a couple of days, I’ll be 88 years of age."

"It was my privilege to be among those who participated in this event in the 'coming of age' of cybernetics."

"My work focuses on how we analyze the three-dimensional structure and movement of objects in the environment through the integration of cues such as image motion and stereo vision, and use this information for the visual guidance of tasks such as steering a vehicle and catching a ball."

"My research explores human vision through the creation of computational models of visual processing and observations from perceptual experiments."

"As we move through complex scenes of the sort that arise when we drive or play sports, we quickly perceive distinct objects that we can recognize, track, or interact with in some way. A critical step in this process is to locate object boundaries in the rapidly changing image that reaches the eye."

"I teach an advanced course on vision that combines the study of state-of-the-art computer vision systems with observations from psychology and neuroscience about the visual processing strategies used in biological systems."

"They can pursue an area of concentration that includes coursework in computer science and research that incorporates the perspective of computational modeling."

"I serve on the advisory committees for the Neuroscience program and the Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences program. Through these interdepartmental programs, students engage in a broad interdisciplinary study of the nervous system and the mind."

"I went into chemistry instead of engineering because I thought engineers drove trains."

"It's estimated that 30 percent of type II diabetes patients have NASH [nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a severe form of fatty liver disease]."

"In my considered opinion the peer review system, in which the proposals rather than the proposers are reviewed, is the greatest disaster to be visited upon the scientific community in this century"