Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

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.

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

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

With cult foods, there is an underlying assumption that the best cooking ideas came generations ago. Yet culinary innovation is nothing to be ashamed of. When a chef tells me he is cooking with his grandmother's recipe, I always wonder why. Did talent skip the past two generations?

Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.