Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?'

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.

Your ego does not need to be crushed, it needs to be redeemed.

And Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech.

The most important things that one's working on are not necessarily the most important things that one thinks one's working on.

There are two choices available in duality - one side or the other side. Everyting is formed from that.

There will be no equity without solidarity. There will be no justice without a social movement.

The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.

People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it ot the bank they're thinking ill.

The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.

The air crackled with the presage of lightning, and a heavy mist descended around them.

Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.