Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.

Ultimately, my Ph.D. is in mathematical physics, focusing on quantum field theory and curved space-time, and I worked with Stephen Hawking.

Our goal was to show people a vision of food they hadn't seen before. So, I had this idea of... let's cut all these things in half, and show a picture of the food in the pan, in the oven.

I have a very pragmatic approach to diets. Ones you can't stick to don't do you any good. Some people say, 'Just eat half of what's on your plate,' but I can't do that!

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

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.

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