Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

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.

All power lies in free expression.

You can't train people loyalty. A person with loyalty is a great asset than a smart but disloyal one...

I thought, I can't wait to get on the podium squad. I was in my hotel and they were in the Premier Inn living the high life!

I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.

I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse.

[I] love 'Munich', man. That's a very underappreciated film.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

Roar, lion of the heart, and tear me open!