Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

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.

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

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.

Whatever it will bring, it will be good to be there, in the Land of Future!

If Star Wars had been released in the late '60s, or late '80s, or late '90s, adjusting for technology, it fits spectacularly well.

Well, I've never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.

I know you want it, boy. I see you tryin. Just keep on pushin, I'm a let you slide in.

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.