Nathan Myhrvold Quotes

I was a huge Internet junkie.

Sometimes I wish I never found the Internet. Sometimes I regret getting a laptop and Wi-Fi for logging into the Internet because it is such a distraction. If you have any addictive personality, the Internet will magnify it.

I'm an Internet junkie.

For me, the Internet's like music. I don't like working without it. I will tune it out for hours at a time, as I get lost in the work, but I'd know if it wasn't there. If that makes sense.

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

I borrowed a creaky laptop from my husband, went into the web, and never came back.

I'm a social media addict.

Free is not going to go away. Either the advertising model will still work, or there will still be literally hundreds of millions of people who want to put their information on the Net and want people to have access to it.

I spend a lot, a lot, a lot of time on the Web.

You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.

The Internet's impact is immense. My students can't imagine ever paying for a book.

Google is addictive.

I'm a big consumer of media and content online.

Netflix is just wonderful.

Thank God for the Internet. Thank God for these amazing portals that are there. For instance, Netflix and Amazon. The kind of content the audience has got to see has gone up drastically, and because of this, the quality of work will go up, too.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

I'm hopelessly addicted to Instagram.

I've got more than half of Mumbai addicted to the Internet.

I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?

I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online.

The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom. That's all it is. All those media companies say, "We're going to make a killing here." You won't because it's still only as good as the content.

Twitter is crack for media addicts.

I can get a script and go, "Well, I'd rather do stand-up." I don't hold movies in higher regard. I love making videos and posting. I love TV.

The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.