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- Nov 07, 2020
The idea behind a dish - the delight and the surprise - makes a difference. Great literature surprises and delights, and provokes us. It isn't just 'Here's the facts - boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl.' It's how you tell it.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never was a popular kid in class.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
We should have more invention.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Microsoft, Apple, Facebook all bought huge patent portfolios to further their strategic game. They're doing what I'm doing!
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our reactor actually burns nuclear waste as fuel. So not only is it safe and powerful, it solves an important issue: It actually reduces nuclear waste instead of creating. It's the reactor of your dreams.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
- Inventor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.
- Nov 07, 2020
No CEO ever says, 'Damnit, we need to increase research!' I want to encourage them to do that.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
Another random thing I do is the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI. And you may be familiar with the movie 'Contact,' which sort of popularized that. It turns out there are real people who go out and search for extraterrestrials in a very scientific way.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now, to find dinosaurs, you hike around in horrible conditions looking for a dinosaur. It sounds really dumb, but that's what it is. It's horrible conditions, because wherever you have nice weather, plants grow, and you don't get any erosion, and you don't see any dinosaurs.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
- Helluva
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the greatest things that Apple and Jobs were very good at doing was daring to do the very different thing. It's what I did with my cookbook, frankly.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'
- Nov 07, 2020