Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Raw lobster tail, freeze dried, is amazing.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'

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.

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

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.