Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

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.

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Let us have peace.

Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.

You know, right often, the body is the best thing we’ve got going for us. A body itself is a shiny object. Something!

You shouldn't change your behavior because a government agency somewhere is doing the wrong thing. If you sacrifice your values because you're afraid, you don't care about those values very much.

Put it back in the horse!

Vice can deceive under the guise and shadow of virtue.

Maybe death is the great equalizer, the one big thing that can finally make strangers shed a tear for one another

If I can make it out, anyone can make it out!

The hope or climbing aspiration of a divine child is to receive and achieve Peace, Light and Bliss in infinite measure.