One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that competition.
Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.
I really like having someone who knows about food and what goes well together make a meal for me.
I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.
The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to.
Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.
We had no electricity, no gas. Food was probably our greatest entertainment - the most fun thing that we could do was food.
Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.
You know, just in terms of having to have a life on the road, you know, having the celebrity aspect be a burden for my family, friends and extended family.
The thing that interests me most about family history is the gap between the things we think we know about our families and the realities.
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.
I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
When I wrote 'Barefoot in Paris,' I wanted to make simple recipes that you could make at home that tasted like French classics.
I came from a broken home, so my mom was a major influence in my life.
We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.
I love working fictional characters into a piece of history. It plays to my strengths, which are characterization and dialogue, and assists me in my admitted weakness, plot.
People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
The guy who knows about computers is the last person you want to have creating documentation for people who don't understand computers.
The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
