If I have a brand loyalty, it's to Macintosh. And maybe that's because my computer skills and the way my life has changed through my ability to use computers have been so attached to Macintoshes that... I feel about them the way a lot of farmers feel about Ford trucks. You've got certain tools that you have to have, and so you're very, very picky; and once you make up your mind about what you're going to go with, you stick with it... And I do not think that I could do what I do without them.

I am a nerd, I guess, if you think that getting kind of excited about understanding ionic bonds is nerdy. Truth is, I was a horrible student. I sucked at every…

Good Eats was, if nothing else, original. I can't always say that it's good, but I do think it's original. And I think that's something that comes from one per…

Martin Scorsese likes to make films about the mob, and I happen to like to make films about food.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p.109)

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.

In my first year I was taught about the slide rule. They said, 'The slide rule is important. Without it you can do nothing. The slide rule is the modern weapon…