Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

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.

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.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

I like smart, funny, self-deprecating men.

Philosophers are smart, analytical, and skeptical. For these reasons they are relatively unbiased.

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.

I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me.

I'm glad the President finally found an economic development program. I'm just sad that it's only in Baghdad.

I mean, really, whatever you woke up worrying about this morning, get over it. How important in the greater scheme of things can it possibly be? Make your peace and move on.

Poetry is much more important than the truth, and, if you don't believe that, try using the two methods to get laid.

It is not about mind-watching; but rather recognizing That which watches the mind.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.