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

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.

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.

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

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development

Fear is a lack of love, just as darkness is a lack of light.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.

Automatic paper towel dispensers are a solution to something that was never a problem in the first place.

You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

Yet I will make you all love me and I will punish myself to spite your love.

Unfortunately, the only meaning that society attributes to life today is an opportunity to make money.

Life is futile unless it be directed towards a definite goal.

Economics spreads happiness.