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 got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news.

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

I started as an artist and I had a side job moving some heavy boxes for a publishing company. They had just gotten a Mac for their art department, the department that creates the book covers. I was kind of showing the art director a thing or two about how to use a Mac. And one day everyone went out to lunch and I jumped on the computer and designed a book jacket and slipped it in the pile to go to the review board in New York. They picked my jacket and when the art director got back to Boston, he wanted to know who designed it and I said, "Me." He was like, "The box guy?"

A personal belief is that if you're not personally invested in what you're working on, you'll fail.

The future of marketing is philanthropy.

If people are passionate about your product, whether it's because they're hating or loving it, those are both good scenarios.