To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.
We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.
Don't take too much advice.
I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.
Just build things and find out if they work.
I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract. . . To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.
What you collect says so much about who you are.
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and all the efforts of philosophers ought to turn towards this Me, the centre and moving power of our sentiments and our ideas.
. . . We now realize as we have never before our interdependence on each other; that we cannot merely take, but we must be willing to sacrifice for the good of a common discipline, because without such discipline, no progress is made, no leadership becomes effective.
For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come. . . And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.
[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.