So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

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.

Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception.

Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.

My nerves will come when I have to take off my top.

If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?

It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists have both upper and lower plates.

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

People are constantly asking me if I'm pregnant, but I don't like to talk about it too much. I just think about it as the next phase. We'll see.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

As a parent you have to do some renunciation.

The whole year I was in LA I got into telemarketing and learned how to make money. Five years later that skill helped me make my first film.