Dave Morin Quotes

#1. We certainly hope that Facebook allows users to connect with their friends on Path and with any other partner applications in the future.

Dave Morin

#2. Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

Dave Morin

#3. Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.

Dave Morin

#4. We give you a list of suggested friends to connect with who are already on Path. We notify you when other friends of yours join Path.

Dave Morin

#5. I do have screenplays I've written that never saw the light of day, but I don't usually go back to them. When I've told a story, I want to tell another story.

Joss Whedon

#6. My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

Barack Obama

#7. I don't use a ring of any kind on my phone. This is so that I am always on offense and never defense.

Dave Morin

#8. In social, you have to innovate in information. If you have the same thing as everyone else, you're just not interesting.

Dave Morin

#9. Frankly, the hardest pieces of feedback we got in the U.S. was, 'I would love if more of our friends were on Path. It's hard to get them to join.'

Dave Morin

#10. If I learned one thing working at Facebook: If users are trying to use your app in a certain way, get out of their way and let them.

Dave Morin

#11. People love having a home. People love going to their house and sleeping in their bedroom and having a conversation around the dinner table. You don't particularly think of that conversation as a private conversation; you just think of it as something that happened in your home.

Dave Morin

#12. When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.

Dave Morin

#13. As creators, we feel constant demand for innovation from the world. This puts immense pressure on the creative process and oftentimes can have a dampening effect.

Dave Morin

#14. There are a lot of things that are uncomfortable and hard to do, and the longer you put off those things, the harder they get.

Dave Morin

#15. My best entrepreneurial advice is to start.

Dave Morin

#16. I remember my first lecture on my first day in evolutionary biology, how populations and species change. I sat thinking, 'Why doesn't everyone know this?' I look back on it almost in horror: I came so close to not knowing how exciting our world is.

Elise Andrew

#17. It was her only real secret, so it was a pity it wasn't juicier.

Liane Moriarty

#18. Innovation often starts with the ordinary. They simply took what was "normal", and added a twist. They added an innovation. The innovation solved a key problem of the "normal" use case that we all already understood.

Dave Morin

#19. Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false.

Dave Morin

#20. I have two iPhones: one for day and one for the night. When the day phone runs out, the night phone takes over. I never have to worry.

Dave Morin

#21. Once the body has atrophied, you will become vulnerable to many conditions.

Steven Magee

#22. In mobile, people really love having single-use case experiences. They want low friction to getting to the application's use case.

Dave Morin

#23. We want to make sure the stories that show up in Path are both good stories and are a big part of people's lives.

Dave Morin

#24. Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

Dave Morin

#25. Theta crashed next to them on the thick zebra-skin rug. "I'm embalmed."
"Potted and splificated?"
"Ossified to the gills. Time for night-night.

Libba Bray

#26. We don't want to connect you with just anyone on Path. Without the contact list information, some of these features just don't work.

Dave Morin

#27. Sing of the nature of women, and then the song shall be surely full of variety; old crotchets and most sweet closes. It shall be humorous, grave, fantastic, amorous, melancholy, sprightly, one in all, and all in one.

John Marston

#28. Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.

Dave Morin

#29. It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.

Anthony Storr