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

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.

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.

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

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

By burning nuclear waste as fuel, we believe we can power the United States cleanly for hundreds of years without ever touching new resources.