The depressing thing about battery technology is that it gets better, but it gets better slowly. There are a whole bunch of problems in materials science and chemistry that come in trying to make existing batteries better.

Cooking is an art, but all art requires knowing something about the techniques and materials. Using modernist techniques, you get more control, and that allows you to be more artistic, not less!

A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks at Home Depot. And there's a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching up the browning of a chicken or making creme brulee.

If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!

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

One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.