I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Not many people agree with what I do.

I travel all the time.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.