I've got a lot of other people who do a lot of things for me, so I've gotten to a part in my career where I'm doing a lot of talks because I want to get kids turned on. I want to see these kids, these geeky nerdy kids, go out there and do something.

You get these fear memories that are hard to undo.

Just think about it yourself; you don't want to put the [cat's] litter box down the basement because that's too far, on the other hand you don't want to put where everybody is traipsing in and out the back the door.

What do I do when I go home? Work. That's basically my social life. I'm married to work.

When you're a weird geek, the way to sell yourself is to show your skills.

I feel very strongly that we need to give beef cattle a really good life. When they go to slaughter, it needs to be painless.

I think using animals for food is an ethical thing to do, but we've got to do it right. We've got to give those animals a decent life, and we've got to give them a painless death. We owe the animal respect.