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Marco Arment (born June 11, 1982) is an American iOS and Web developer, as well as a technology writer and former magazine editor, living in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York. As a developer, he is best known for co-founding Tumblr and creating Instapaper and Overcast.

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Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.

Break, Google, Home, Invite

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

Empowering, Independence, Keep, Platforms, Supporting, Technology

As long as I manage investments properly and don't spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that's exactly what I plan to do.

Long, Net, Properly, Safety, Spend, Strong

Apple already had everyone's billing information from iTunes. . . you could buy things just by typing in your password. . . That, for the first time, brought very, very easy payment to the modern software world. That, more than anything, is why there is a business for paid apps.

Apples, Business, Information, Modern, Things, World

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.

Day, Hours, Sleep, Takes, Touch, Whatever It Takes

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Abandonment, Emphasizing, Quality, Writing

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I'm not really touching the money.

Doe, Paid, Site, Support, Touching

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Features, Making, Product, Products, Removing

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Culture, Details, Development, Entire, Philosophy

I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money. . . trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

Bought, Good, Stuff, Trying, Waste, Work

I don't even like being quoted in a press release.

Like, Press, Press Release, Presses, Quoted, Release

I don't need every customer. I'm primarily in the business of selling a product for money. How much effort do I really want to devote to satisfying people who are unable or extremely unlikely to pay for anything?

Business, Effort, Needs, Pay, People

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.

Billions, Crazy, Forever, Free, Microsoft, Online

With Instapaper, I can take a few months off. I can't stop publishing 'The Magazine' for two months and work on something else.

Instapaper, Magazines, Months, Publishing, Two

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.

Bright, Bright Future, Drive, Looking, Looking Forward, Resources

Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.

Coffee, Crazy, Impractical, Priorities, Writing

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.

Doe, Ipads, Kindle, Reason, Show

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

Business, Different, Interpretations, People, Urgent