Foursquare's Quotes

#1. Foursquare's adoption of a game dynamic when it launched is a particularly clever implementation of a social hook.

Fred Wilson

#2. Elasticsearch is all about scale for us. At Foursquare, we handle tens of millions of searches across 50 million locations each day. Elasticsearch returns real-time results, which encourages more usage and deeper engagement.

Andrew Hogue

#3. The misconception about Foursquare is that it's just hipsters in New York and San Francisco checking in at bars. It's happening all over the world. I've seen huge growth in Europe, Japan, South America.

Dennis Crowley

#4. The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

Amitabh Bachchan

#5. What's really going on is, on your iPhone, you have 200 apps, and they're all collecting a little data on you. Twitter knows a certain thing, Foursquare knows something else, my Fitbit app knows something else, my Waze app knows something else.

Robert Scoble

#6. I love technology, and man, is it helpful. But it also means you're always on. Always findable. Always available to 'just take five minutes' to answer an email, tweet a link for someone, check in quickly on FourSquare.

Rachel Sklar

#7. We've got over 1 million merchants who have claimed their businesses on Foursquare, running specials and doing other things. What we want to do is take these tools used by the 50-100 national retailers and make them accessible to our 1 million merchants. Then you've got something really powerful.

Dennis Crowley

#8. I think the idea of the obstruction through the neutral zone and away from the puck was an excellent rule.

Mark Messier

#9. Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes ... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.

Peter Guber

#10. Every check-in should mean something. Foursquare should get smarter every time that you continue to check in. We should be able to offer special deals that you may be interested in, and we should be able to offer recommendations for the type of things you should do next.

Dennis Crowley

#11. The interesting products out on the Internet today are not building new technologies. They're combining technologies. Instagram, for instance: Photos plus geolocation plus filters. Foursquare: restaurant reviews plus check-ins plus geo.

Jack Dorsey

#12. It's very clear to users, more clear than in other apps, that Foursquare is an app for search and discovery, and we're very good at delivering you a social map that will show you friends' faces on the map and things that you might like.

Dennis Crowley

#13. Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.

Natalie Baszile

#14. Why did they go away, do you think? If there ever were such things."
"Who knows? Times change. Would you call this age a good one for unicorns?"
"No, but I wonder if any man before us ever thought his time a good time for unicorns.

Peter S. Beagle

#15. The best version of Foursquare is the one you don't think about using.

Dennis Crowley

#16. If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

Dennis Crowley

#17. I keep a notebook in my pocket, and I write down all the stuff we could ever do with Foursquare.

Dennis Crowley

#18. One of the biggest hurdles about Foursquare is you need to remember to use it.

Dennis Crowley

#19. Biblically sound, faithful, and intellectually satisfying theology that will ... cure many current theological concerns.

Jay Kesler

#20. Asana and complementary services are bringing the evolved team brain to the entire world. In great companies like Twitter, Uber, Airbnb, Foursquare, and LinkedIn, people already add information to and extract insight from these systems much the same way our hands and brain exchange signals.

Justin Rosenstein

#21. Cooks are an undervalued, awesome profession.

Tom Douglas

#22. THE PRICE grew out of a need to reconfirm the power of the past, the seedbed of current reality, and the way to possibly reaffirm cause and effect in an insane world.

Arthur Miller

#23. When Death puts out our Flame, the Snuff will tell, If we were Wax, or Tallow by the smell.

Masao Abe

#24. Facebook is about sharing experiences that you've had. Foursquare is more about the present tense and the future tense.

Dennis Crowley

#25. Embrace your fire - even in hard times. A down economy can actually be a great time to start a business.

Jean Chatzky

#26. People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.

Dennis Crowley

#27. Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

Dennis Crowley

#28. Art is created in a state of delirium. Anyting else is the restoration of monuments. Collectors are artist that do not have a home. they have to make one for themselves.

Gunter Brus

#29. 2010 Foursquare Mayor Of The Year

Baratunde Thurston

#30. Sometimes sassy, a little bit nasty but always classy.

The Ardent Rose

#31. I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.

Jack Dorsey

#32. The institution of taxation rests foursquare on the axiom that somebody must rule somebody else.

Frank Chodorov

#33. There are people that will settle for nothing, people that will fight for something, and those that are fooled striving to have everything.

Anthony Liccione

#34. It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.

Jack Dorsey