I wanted to figure out how long to cook things. I did some experiments and then wrote a program using Mathematica to model how heat is transferred through food.

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.

We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the pathways of ordinary human conversation.

Be proactive

Wolves and Doves mate for life. I hope in the next life I am one of the two.

You turned the page, i burned the book.

I can't eat more than six hundred dollars worth of food.

When opportunity presents itself grab it. Hold on tight and don’t let go.

I don't feel comfortable voting for Donald Trump.

I don't like people who use the press to advance themselves in a way that they haven't earned as an actor, performer or director.

It's important to me to work in my own language now and then. I love English, but you can never learn to master a foreign language if you're not brought up with it

They say the number on rule in showbusiness is not to work with animals. I guess I'm above the rules because I put up with that for seven years.