Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

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.

No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.

Un sot trouve toujours un plus sot qui l'admire.A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

it's often been said, she's easy on the eye but the moment she shows you a slice of her personality, you'll feel for the first time, something of magic is walking on this earth.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.

I've always watched actors on the red carpet getting drunk and making idiots of themselves and now I'm happy to join their ranks

I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

It’s a trick Ben taught me to help settle my Noise. You close yer eyes and as clearly and calmly as you can you tell yerself who you are, cuz that’s what gets lost in all that Noise.

Pour out wine till I become a wanderer from myself; for in selfhood and existence I have felt only fatigue.