The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

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.

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

He rolled his neck, as if to relieve the stress of his shoulders. "Your body is encased in a strong spell. It will not open up to me, " he said in frustration. "Who guards you?

Trust all you wish to achieve, in the aftermath of Christmas will harmoniously begin to unfold.

To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.

When you don't have certain senses your other senses become heightened.

I'm not one of those people who are desperate to get married.

Kill one and you might as well kill 21.

For me, appropriate policy means that we continue to reduce accommodation and return to a neutral federal funds rate

I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

It is awful hard to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.