Cooking is like snow skiing: If you don't fall at least 10 times, then you're not skiing hard enough.

When I was 12, we began hosting exchange students from Norway, Sweden, Japan and Spain. I soon realized there was a whole world out there. I was determined to spend my sophomore year in high school abroad. My school taught only Spanish, but I wanted to go to France, and I did.

I wake up in the morning thinking about food.

There are three people you need in life: an accountant, a fishmonger, and a bail bondsman.

There's nothing that can replicate the smoky flavor of char, so when I've got the hankering for it, I tell my wife that I'm taking care of dinner. I have three different types of barbecues - a coal, gas and smoker - so I can experiment a lot.

In Japanese, sushi does not mean raw fish. It means seasoned rice.

If you're feeling adventurous, grill up some marinated octopus. It's so healthy.

I'm a culinary gangsta with a very spiritual side, so when I was introduced to the 'spiritual gangster' line, I had to have it.

Manage the heat, let the meat cook, and you'll get fantastic results.

You have to be confident in who you are and what you're doing. Of course, you try to evolve. I would never tell you, 'Today is the best I will ever be.' I'm always trying to be a better chef, a better dad, a better person.

There are two different things: there's grilling, and there's barbecue. Grilling is when people say, 'We're going to turn up the heat, make it really hot and sear a steak, sear a burger, cook a chicken.' Barbecue is going low and slow.

Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience.

Cooking is all about people. Food is maybe the only universal thing that really has the power to bring everyone together. No matter what culture, everywhere around the world, people get together to eat.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

If your values don't alienate anyone, it is just platitude.

I worry all the time that we're going to screw up a customer's offer.

I started a software company with a couple other folks. It went public. We made plenty of money. And I thought it was this incredible mission, but in fact, we sold software to Haliburton; we sold software to Frito-Lay and Pepsi and all these companies that didn't necessarily do good things.

I wish I was as annotative as Elon Musk.

I wish I was as smart as Jeff Bezos. He's just a large-brained space alien.

I think that real estate consumers are stuffy; I think they're scared. They don't buy a house every day. It's a very infrequent purchase.

I'm from Seattle.

Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want to change it.

I think of myself as someone who's trying to make things better.

I wanted to solve every real estate problem with software.