Mama never told me, 'Bess, you did good.' She wanted the best for us and she was an incredible administrator. She ran those three kids, that... →
Bess Myerson
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
Nathan Myhrvold
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a... →
It's very hard for individual inventors to get paid. For the same reason that private equity is valuable - broadly, that's a good thing - in... →
I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's... →
If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment... →
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my... →
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true?... →