I think the support of the other team at AOL and everybody's really shared passion and belief about this and - saying that some day everybody was going to be on line.

I do think that a general liberal arts education is very important, particularly in an uncertain changing world

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

I had an older brother who passed away recently, an older sister and a younger brother.

You shouldn't focus on why you can't do something, which is what most people do. You should focus on why perhaps you can, and be one of the exceptions.

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

You have to get along with people, but you also have to recognize that the strength of a team is different people with different perspectives and different personalities.

...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

I always wanted to be a character actor. I love watching movies where you dont recognize someone because theyre so lost in the part.

If we were created in God’s image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.

If a man fights his adversaries, he's called determined. If a woman does it, she's frustrated.

The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

I cannot sustain hate for longer than a couple of years.

I found that the majority of people who stopped at my table [ at the Comic Con] last didn't even know who Winnie the Pooh was, and the new feature was just opening in the theaters.

Watch yourself. Every minute we change. It is a great opportunity. At any point, we can step out of our frozen selves and our ideas and begin fresh.

I was lucky to have my dad in my life. As crazy as things got, I always had him to put his hand on my shoulder.