My Career At Microsoft Really Was Getting

People Get Cranky When You Burst Their Bubble. Over Time, Advances In Astronomy Have Relentlessly Reinforced The Utter Insignificance Of Earth On A Celestial Scale. Fortunately, Political And Religious Leaders Stopped Barbecuing Astronomers For Saying So, Turning Their Spits With Human-rights Activists Instead.

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 Amazing Experience.

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 A Million Miles An Hour, It Would Be Shrunken Down In Size, And A Trip To New York Would Cost About Five Dollars. Those Enormous Changes Just Aren't Part Of Our Everyday Experience.

People Who Grow Up In A Region Doubtless Have A Better Cultural Awareness Of Their Own Cuisine, But It's Also True That A Lot Of Locals Go To Mcdonald's, Applebee's And The Like.

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.