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"I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials."
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"The idea is if you use those two shapes and try to colour the plane with them so the colours match, then the only way that you can do this is to produce a pattern which never repeats itself."
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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
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"You can always borrow ideas; but unless you improve them very significantly, never behave as if they are your own!"
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"The basic idea in case-based, or CBR, is that the program has stored problems and solutions. Then, when a new problem comes up, the program tries to find a similar problem in its database by finding analogous aspects between the problems."
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"The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky."
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"I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana."
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"I first pitched the idea of doing a series of cartoons based on Bible stories. They didn't much like it."
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"If you make an error, use it as a stepping stone to a new idea you might not have otherwise discovered."
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"My understanding is that Olivia had no idea what was going on."
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"Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
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"My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee."
Committee
"I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding."
Time
"My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera."
Success
"I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it."
Being
"Although I don't take myself very seriously, I do take my work extraordinarily seriously."
Work
"Take ice. Ice is fascinating to me. Ice is the one thing in our world that went from an agricultural product to being manufactured."
Being
"The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with."
Power
"For me, it was kind of like going into the military or something. And anybody - any male - who has ever worked in a French kitchen knows what I am talking about when I say that."
Kitchen
"Enough people have now mentioned Bill Nye the Science Guy to me that I now desperately avoid it all costs."
Science
"A lot of food shows need only to tempt. Some food shows only need to inspire, to empower. And there are a lot of shows that do that."
Food
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