The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They're both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately that they're both enormously valuable.

If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

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

Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

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.

Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move its services to the Web for peanuts by comparison. The extreme case of corporate promotion is to strip away all other aspects of your business and sell goods or services via the Net alone, as amazon.com has done with books.