Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.

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.

Great men dare the giant of impossibilities

As a boy, I remember my father telling me a bedtime story about the day my grandfather was decapitated.

It's great to be in a room full of young people...The average age of the Senate, I think, is death.

The Bolsheviks started not just on the killing of private property; they were trying to abolish money itself.

God is basic Fact. He must not be thought of as a featureless generality. He is the most concrete thing there is.

The mountain decides whether you climb or not. The art of mountaineering is knowing when to go, when to stay, and when to retreat.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.