Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.

Embrace your constraints.

Creativity is an infinitely renewable resource - you are not going to run out of it - so don't be afraid to use it.

People first. Technology second.

There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction.

I started out as an artist, and I continue to think of myself as an artist first, and a technologist and entrepreneur after that.

I started designing book jackets, which was great because I was good at it. And then from there I decided to become a freelance graphic designer and I needed to expand beyond book jackets, so I taught myself web design, and then in 1999 some friends of mine decided to start a company called Xanga.com, which was a very early kind of social network slash blogging community.