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

Software sucks because users demand it to.

Chefs think about what it's like to make food. Being a scientist in the kitchen is about asking why something works, and how it works.

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

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

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

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.