If people don't find what you are doing threatening, then it is probably not very important..

If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention..

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 your kitchen smells good, your food lost something..

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

The scientific method is the ultimate elegant explanation. It is the ultimate foundation for anything worthy of the name "explanation". It makes no s….

My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a….

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 co….

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..

Software sucks because users demand it to..

The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to dem….

Business is war! Its leaders are strategic commanders, who boldly snatch victory from the jaws of defeat - and who perform other acts of derring-do. ….

It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do..

The new revolution in cooking can be viewed in two ways. One is that you can take any traditional food and apply modern techniques. The other approac….

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 ….

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional ….

Pressure cookers are relatively inexpensive, they're in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don't. A pressure coo….

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and t….

Crazy ideas sometimes work, and the technological society that we have is built on a foundation of those crazy ideas that work..

The NeXT purchase is too little too late. Apple is already dead..

A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA..