One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.

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.

As man becomes more technologically advanced, his barbarity becomes even more lethal

The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

Look how ridiculous are Americans. They blame us for everything.

Perfectionism is the fear of being criticized.

We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.

How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!

But one day we shall be rich, and the next poor. One day we shall dine in a palace and the next we'll sit in a forest and toast mushrooms on a hatpin.

I would not flinch from sacrificing even a million lives for India's liberty.

To live our lives fully, to work whole heartily, to refuse directly what we can't swallow, to accepts the mystery in all matters of meaning- this is the ultimate adventure.