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

If you had a really good - battery, it wouldn't matter that the sun goes down at night and the wind stops blowing sometimes. But at the moment, battery technology is nowhere near good enough to use at utility scale.

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.

Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.

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.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.