Technological 'revolutions' don't really overthrow anything - they simply append a new and dynamic market to that which went before..

I think that there is a role for food to be art; and when food is art, it can have drama, it can have spectacle, it can be theatrical. It can be this….

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

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

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….

If your kitchen smells good, your food lost something..

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..

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

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..

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

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

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..

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….

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

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

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

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

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

Software sucks because users demand it to..

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 ….