I'm all about kind of preserving hair and face, conditioning products and staying out of the sun.
Building robot versions of people is very expensive.
In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one. ' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie. '
The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.
One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.
"Star Wars" was the right movie for me. I watched the MSE-6 droid leading the stormtroopers where they needed to go when they were under attack, and that got my attention much more so than C-3PO and R2-D2 because we could actually build that.
There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.
So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television.
It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.
Be patient with yourself. Don't make the loss harder by thinking you should be a certain way, or have bounced back, etc.
One cannot understand. . . the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it.