The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.

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.

Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

Never ascribe to an opponent motives meaner than your own.

Not being published would be great. When I say that to other writers they look at me as if I'm totally insane.

We do nods to Charlie's Angels and Mission Impossible because they are popular with our fan base.

As long as I continue to put forth who I am and what I believe, than I think it all balances out.

I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.

The biggest issue on software teams is making sure everyone understands what everyone else is doing.

When I grow up I wanna be like Omar

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.