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I always carry my camera with me.
I never spent much time with people my own age.
I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
People have different interpretations of "urgent".
I don't even like being quoted in a press release.
People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.
We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.
People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.
Making a product better often requires removing features.
Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.
Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.
Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.
Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown.
Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves
We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.
I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.
I want to build something I’d be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.
We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.
Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.
People will pay for something they like because they want to ensure its future.
I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.
Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.
Never underestimate the power of the mind, the importance of love and faith, and never stop dreaming.
Dreams can be any size you want them to be. But the important thing is that you have one that is yours.
For every new feature we add, we take an old one out. A lot of big sites don't do that, and it's a problem.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
Treat everyone with kindness, dignity, compassion and respect, irrespective of whether you think they understand or not.
Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.
If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.
With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.
I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.
You guys are more talented than anyone in the Tumblr office or in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale. We're constantly in awe, constantly in service.
Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.
Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.
Where I feel the most productive and engaged is when I'm buried in code, buried in some project, tweaking some designs. I'm certainly introverted.
Instapaper wouldn't be of as much value if it weren't for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.
I'm very antischedule. Except for board meetings, I don't really schedule things or keep a calendar. I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
There are a lot of rich people in the world. There are very few people who have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use.
Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.
Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.
With Betaworks' drive and resources now behind it, I'm confident that Instapaper has a very bright future. I'm looking forward to seeing what they can do.
Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.
Our team isn’t changing. … And our mission – to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve – certainly isn’t changing.
With a Web and iPhone app, I try to find new and tiny ways to delight my customers. They may not notice, but it helps drive goodwill and makes your product remarkable.
The biggest lesson has been the importance of constantly repeating the mission. It means bringing the team together every week to talk about all of our projects, progress, and vision.
One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can't do anything else but read. It's the best, because it does the least. It doesn't even show a clock.
In the modern desktop environment, with multitasking and alerts and constant activity, there are always more distractions. When you're at a computer, your hands are always on the controls.