If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan MyhrvoldBy burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
Nathan MyhrvoldOne of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
Nathan MyhrvoldCrazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.
Nathan Myhrvold