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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.

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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

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The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.

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What you do on a dinosaur expedition is you hike and look at the ground. You find bones sticking out of the dirt and, once you see something, you dig.

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Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

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Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

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Elections, for their part, are typically popularity contests rather than measures of candidates' relative competency or effectiveness. Imagine if scientific truth were determined according to which scientist was most popular. To be successful, scientists would have to be charismatic and attractive - and human knowledge would suffer terribly.

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

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Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

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I've been on a team that won the world championship of barbecue. But barbecue's interesting, because it's one of these cult foods like chili, or bouillabaisse. Various parts of the world will have a cult food that people get enormously attached to - there's tremendous traditions; there's secrecy.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: August 3rd, 1959

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