What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

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 think we all keep irritating situations in our head to long, until we finally realize it’s taking up valuable space.

There is a scientific explanation behind everything. Finding it depends on whether you give in to the much simpler supernatural explanation.

I get way too much happiness from good food.

What are you accepting that would not be a part of your ideal day?

Give yourself enough time to really learn how to cook.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)

I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

Blasphemy: a law to protect an all-powerful, supernatural deity from getting its feelings hurt.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

The great man... walks across his century and leaves the marks of his feet all over it, ripping out the dates on his goloshes as he passes.