Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

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.

Without patience one cannot get far in life.

I don't like to sugarcoat, it can cause an addiction to B.S.

I always think challenges are interesting and help you to become a better person.

I think corporate managers should learn to be better investors because it would make them better managers.

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.

Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.

Our appointment with life is in the present moment. If we do not have peace and joy right now, when will we have peace and joy?

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

The universe is made of one kind of what-ever-it-is, which cannot be defined.