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- In market research I did at Microsoft Corp. in the early 1990s, I estimated that the 'Wall Street Journal' took in about 75 cents per…
- 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…
- 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.
- If you talk about sous-vide, then you have to talk about food safety, and microbiology, and heat.
- In the early days of the software industry, people cared about copyright and didn't give a damn about patents - they copied each other willy-nilly.
- A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things…
- 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…
- Most estimates of the mortality risk posed by asteroid impacts put it at about the same risk as flying in a commercial airliner. However, you…
- Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life?…
- 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…
- The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials…
- The way Moore's Law occurs in computing is really unprecedented in other walks of life. If the Boeing 747 obeyed Moore's Law, it would travel…
- Three things about water affect almost all of cooking. First are the hydrogen bonds, which is why it has an incredibly high boiling point. Another…
- When I was about nine years old, I announced to my mother that I was going to cook Thanksgiving dinner. And I went to the…
- Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on…
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- I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful. — Aaliyah
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not… — Kevyn Aucoin
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
- There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads. — Paul Auster
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little… — Frank Abagnale
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong