Switches Quotes

We`re all on a journey. The average American switches professions four times. I`m lucky to be in a business where I can change the character I am playing every couple of months.

I`d like to be with a woman who goes (he switches into a woman`s voice), "I`ve reviewed your schedule, and I`m going to set up this motorcycle trip for you, because you`ve been working really hard. And I`m going to go with you. We`re going to go riding together. And I`ve already been working on it for a couple days so it can be special."

We went to this huge, icecream picture palace to see a Bollywood movie. Here we were, with 2,000 Indians watching a film in Hindi, and there was the lowest possible comedy and then incredible drama and tragedy and then break out in songs. And it was three-and-a-half hours! We thought we had suddenly learnt Hindi, because we understood everything! (Laughter) We thought it was incredible. How involved the audience were. How uncool they were - how their coolness had been ripped aside and how they were united in this singular sharing of the story. The thrill of thinking, `Could we ever do that in the West? Could we ever get past that cerebral cool and perceived cool.` It required this idea of comic-tragedy. Could you make those switches? Fine in Shakespeare - low comedy and then you die in five minutes.

Nortel and its channel make more money on the upkeep of existing PBX customers than they do on selling new switches, so they hardly want to walk away from the old infrastructure ... That`s why most of the people who are pushing convergence are on the IP side.

When the (depth charges) started coming down, you had to sit and take it, ... The explosions threw you about and knocked you to the floor. Switches fell off the equipment, light bulbs burst and everything would go dark. Water sprayed from leaks. You were defenseless and had to take what was coming. You certainly couldn`t take a walk in the forest to wait it out.