When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'

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.

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Smile fragrances one's reflection of the inner, which inspires others pleasure feeling.

I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.

I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

False zeal is every day bringing true zeal into disrepute.

Almost any decision is better than no decision -- just keep moving.

Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become.

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

First be a good animal.