Computing has gone from something tiny and specialized to something that affects every walk of life. It doesn't make sense anymore to think of it as just one discipline. I expect to see separate departments of user interface, for example, to start emerging at universities.

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

Bill, we left megalomania behind a long time ago. Now we are gigalomaniacs.

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.

I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

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