Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

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 may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

Grace is a good fortune.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.

He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.

How does the water of the brain turn into the wine of consciousness?

The world is evolving, and there is an acceptance of all beliefs, in my observation.

Maybe I am skipping over the city and going from very personal things to the world, from internal experience to giant, far-away-from-space experience.

You should quit trying only after two conditions have been met: 1.) You've given yourself a legitimate shot. 2.) Trying is no longer fun.

I'm pleased to say I am here for life at Michigan State.