One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.

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.

Love is the luckiest tenant in the world, living in the hearts of men and women rent free.

Am I in the picture? Am I getting in or out of it? I could be a ghost, an animal or a dead body, not just this girl standing on the corner…?

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

Venture outside your comfort zone. To stop growing is to stop living.

New Orleans is not in the grip of a neurosis of a denied past; it passes out memories generously like a great lord; it doesn't have to pursue "the real thing."