To my mother, Elinor “Yumi” Maeda, who taught me how to speak human. She taught me how to treat people the way they love to be treated—in the Hawaiian way.

To my father, Yoji Maeda, who taught me how to work like a machine. He taught me how to craft products that customers love and come back for—in the Japanese way.

Together they worked harder than any people I know so that I could attend any college in the world. Thanks to the two of them, I learned how to speak machine. And most importantly, thanks to Yumi, I haven’t forgotten how to speak human too.