The techniques of being an Internet visionary are just like those of lower-tech fortunetellers through the ages. A technological visionary must tell people what they want to hear, because your company's stock won't rise if you spout an unpopular vision to analysts.

Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another is that it's a polar molecule, so that it dissolves a lot of things, and there are things that won't mix with it. And then there's how much energy it takes to heat water.

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

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

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

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

It's impossible that we're alone in the universe. Every time we think we're more special than others, we're proven wrong.