David Karp Quotes

#1. 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.

David Karp

#2. You will not pass! Roman thundered.
Great. Now he had decided he was Gandalf.

Ilona Andrews

#3. We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building.

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#4. Much of depression's pain arises out of the recognition that what might make one feel better--human connection-- seems impossible in the midst of a paralyzing episode of depression. It is rather like dying from thirst while looking at a glass of water just beyond one's reach

David A. Karp

#5. 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.

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#6. I want to build something I'd be happy to be employed by 10 years out.

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#7. Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

David Karp

#8. They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.

Ridley Scott

#9. People tell me I need an assistant, but I don't want one.

David Karp

#10. I never spent much time with people my own age.

David Karp

#11. 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.

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#12. Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

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#13. I've found that if you're not responsive to e-mail, it trains people to leave you alone.

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#14. God has the tough end of the deal. What if instead of planting the seed you had to make the tree? That would keep you up late at night, trying to figure that one out.

Jim Rohn

#15. 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.

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#16. When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?

John Boehner

#17. Making a Hollywood film you don't have a very big movie because they have a Safety Captain and insurance people on the set. They have to check first. 'Don't do it. Let me check. Make sure everything is safe.'

Jackie Chan

#18. Since I am not as stupid as my children believe I am, I had immediately realized this might be a ruse, but I was not at all averse to a confrontation. In fact, I had been hoping for some such thing.

Elizabeth Peters

#19. 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.

David Karp

#20. I don't want egos and personalities on the set that make it more difficult to make the film. I don't want people who take the focus away from the movie and the ideas behind the movie.

Neill Blomkamp

#21. Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

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#22. We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

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#23. Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

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#24. The difference between a child's toy and an adult toy is: location, location, location.

Demetri Martin

#25. People still don't appreciate how ephemeral success is.

Nate Silver

#26. I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

Shania Twain

#27. We've tried to keep as cheap and lean an operation as possible.

David Karp

#28. Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

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#29. The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.

David Karp

#30. 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.

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#31. If one does not expect the unexpected, one will not find it out, since it is not to be searched out, and difficut to compass.

Heraclitus

#32. I always carry my camera with me.

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#33. 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. Twitter started as a beautifully simple product, but it's now going the same route as Facebook. The drive to innovate can overencumber and destroy a product.

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#34. Like a bellowing beast, he howled her name, his raspy wails riding the gales like a ship on a roiling sea.

Fawn Bonning

#35. To know others is wisdom;
To know yourself is enlightenment;
To master others requires force;
To master yourself requires true strength.

Lao-Tzu

#36. I'm always so surprised when people fill their homes up with stuff.

David Karp

#37. 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.

David Karp