A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

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.

Do you remember?' Someone's always asking andsomeone else, always does

Ideas are cheap. Writing them into a freakin' 90k word novel is the hard part.

Query: How does the never to be differ from what never was?

I do not know what I thought Paris would be like, but it was not that way. It rained nearly every day.

That doesn't matter. If it speaks to them and they get something positive from it, it's great.

Building your own home is about desire, fantasy. But it's achievable; anyone can do it.

Although birth control is a part of my plan now, it won't necessarily be a year from now. I want to use my platform to inspire other women out there.

I am earth, earth My heart's love Bursts with hay and flowers. I am a lake of blue air In which my own appointed place Field and valley Stand reflected

So I told my mum that I'd opened a theatre. She said, "Are you having me on?" I said, "Well I'll give you an audition, but I'm not promising you anything."

The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.