Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

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.

There are pearls in the deepest fathoms of the Self, but to get them you will have to go through unimaginable perils.

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.

Remember, confrontation is about reconciliation and awareness, not judgement or anger.

If sound doctrine is given up, the real Gospel of redemption by the blood of the Son of God is denied, worldliness follows.

Cats invented self-esteem.

No nation has ever failed to prosper when its people put God first and their country second

Despite everything, I have few regrets. I have crammed a lot of living into my time.

A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

My husband and I didn't sign a pre-nuptial agreement. We signed a mutual suicide pact.

I think it makes women feel better to find fault with other women. I do that, too.