Latest Quotes

“Building products with "social" and "community" features may not actually serve a larger purpose that isn't undermined by the online hate speech they enable—which often victimizes some users more than others.”

— Ash Huang, How Ordinary Tech Workers Can Improve The Industry's Diversity

“The top search results for "avatar" on Dribbble are overwhelmingly white, male, and bearded. For the rest of us, it feels like we live in a tech boy-king’s world.”

— Ash Huang, How Ordinary Tech Workers Can Improve The Industry's Diversity

“I detailed this process and my thoughts because I want you, a product person, to understand how much someone has to go through when they are abused on platforms”

— Ash Huang, A man sent me a dick pic on Instagram

“Build sports car Use that money to build an affordable car Use that money to build an even more affordable car While doing above, also provide zero emission electric power generation options Don't tell anyone.”

— Elon Musk, The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan (just between you and me)

“Foursquare is playing global chess, while most others in this category are still playing checkers.”

— Michael Carney, So you want to build a data business? Play the long game

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”

— Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes

“The earlier you learn that you should focus on what you have, and not obsess about what you don’t have, the happier you will be.”

— Amy Poehler, Amy Poehler Gets Real, Shares the Best Body Image Advice You May Hear From a Celeb

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.'”

— Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown, Peanuts

“Time to put on a pair of my father's boxers and start my new life.”

— Michael Bahler, A Generous

“Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.”

— Justina Chen, North of Beautiful

“Dude, suckin' at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.”

— Jake, Adventure Time

“Do not criticize or make fun of the technology choices of your peers; for other people will have their own reasons to choose them, and they must be respected. Be prepared to change your mind at any time through learning.”

— Adrian Kosmaczewski, Being A Developer After 40

“Many users passively share their background location with us, which our technology can match up with our location database of over 85 million places, giving us clear insight into natural foot traffic patterns.”

— Jeff Glueck, Foursquare Predicts Chipotle’s Q1 Sales Down Nearly 30%; Foot Traffic Reveals the Start of a Mixed Recovery

“Kafka provides the messaging backbone for building a new generation of distributed applications capable of handling billions of events and millions of transactions”

— Heroku, What is Kafka

“Everything in the company’s Dropbox that you’re given access to, whether it’s stored locally or in the cloud, will show up in Dropbox on your desktop. If it’s synced locally, you’ll see the familiar green checkmark, while everything else will have a new cloud icon.”

— Genevieve Sheehan, A revolutionary new way to access all your files

“Nothing is original, esp. in #design. (btw, these are NOT the logos of Medium AirBNB, Flipboard, and Beats)”

— Spencer Chan, Untitled

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in your or the world, that one song says the same, just like that moment”

— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“They are dimmed in their understanding and separated from the life of progress because of their ignorance. Having lost all sensibility, they have given themselves over to obesity so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of selfishness.”

— Ephesians 4:18-19, The Bible