Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no sense to talk about explanations without having a process for deciding which are right and which are wrong, and in a broad sense that is what the scientific method is about. All of the other wonderful explanations celebrated here owe their origin and credibility to the process by which they are verified-the scientific method.

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

Cooking is for chefs. Science informs us and lets us cook while knowing what we are doing, but it is not a replacement for the skills of a chef.

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