I realized that everything important in sci-fi showed up in the magazines first. It's the proving ground for new writers and new ideas.
“I started NetSuite. NetSuite was my idea. I called up Evan Goldberg and said, 'We're going to do ERP on the Internet, software-as-a-service.' Six months later Marc Benioff, finding out what NetSuite was doing, and kind of copied it.”
“Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.”