People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

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

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.

What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.