Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

Software sucks because users demand it to.

If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance.

If leadership is the way forward, vision is its walking stick.

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

It is extremely Sad to think that while nature is talking, humankind is not listening.

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

[With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone.

That is the strength of having a trusting and ongoing relationship that draws on our history and moves right on into our present, and I have that kind of marriage.

I hunger for the bread of God, the flesh of Jesus Christ ...; I long to drink of his blood, the gift of unending love.

What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.