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.

The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.

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.'

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

Why pay a fee for Internet content when a million free sites are just a click away? There's no incentive until people are too addicted to the Net to turn off their computers, yet are bored with what's available.

People who grow up in a region doubtless have a better cultural awareness of their own cuisine, but it's also true that a lot of locals go to McDonald's, Applebee's and the like.

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