If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something.

One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

There's no way I'm going to stand up for bad ingredients. We love seasonal ingredients. It's a false dichotomy to say that modern cooking is at odds with that, but some people want to have a great ingredient and no technique.

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.

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.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

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.