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We should have more invention.
Software sucks because users demand it to.
I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.
If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.
Age can be wonderful for red wine, but not for spacecraft.
Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !
The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead.
My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.
Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.
The dilemma for early 21st century journalism is this: Who will pay for the news?
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
I think you would find almost anyone who stands up for their patent rights has been called a patent troll.
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.
It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.
The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.
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.
I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before.
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.
It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.
One of the ugly secrets of the renewable-energy industry is that its products make no economic sense unless they are highly subsidized.
Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.
By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.
Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.
If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.
Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.
Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.
In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
The world has shown that if you provide capital and expertise to an area that is starved for capital and expertise, really good things will happen.