Software Sucks Because Users Demand It To.

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 Lot Of Fun To Do - And We Also Invent For Profit. The Two Are Related Because The Profit Actually Takes Long Enough That If It Isn't Fun, You Wouldn't Have The Time To Do It.

The Scientific Method Is The Ultimate Elegant Explanation. It Is The Ultimate Foundation For Anything Worthy Of The Name "explanation". It Makes No Sense To Talk About Explanations Without Having A Process For Deciding Which Are Right And Which Are Wrong, And In A Broad Sense That Is What The Scientific Method Is About. All Of The Other Wonderful Explanations Celebrated Here Owe Their Origin And Credibility To The Process By Which They Are Verified-the Scientific Method.

With Cult Foods, There Is An Underlying Assumption That The Best Cooking Ideas Came Generations Ago. Yet Culinary Innovation Is Nothing To Be Ashamed Of. When A Chef Tells Me He Is Cooking With His Grandmother's Recipe, I Always Wonder Why. Did Talent Skip The Past Two Generations?

My Career At Microsoft Really Was Getting In The Way Of My Cooking.

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 Cook So Much More Accurately That They're Both Enormously Valuable.