Paul Buchheit Quotes

#1. Pick three key attributes or features, get those things very, very right, and then forget about everything else ... By focusing on only a few core features in the first version, you are forced to find the true essence and value of the product. - PAUL BUCHHEIT, CREATOR OF GMAIL AND GOOGLE ADSENSE

Josh Kaufman

#2. Paul Buchheit: Then you have what we do with PCs, and that's technically pretty challenging - to take this big network of machines that are unreliable and build a big, reliable storage system out of it.

Jessica Livingston

#3. We have discussed your definition, analyzed its ramifications to a reasonable depth, and accept it," said the expendable.
"Meaning I gave you what you wanted?"
"Ambition and desire are human traits. You gave us what we lacked.

Orson Scott Card

#4. Email is not going to disappear. Possibly ever. Until the robots kill us all.

Paul Buchheit

#5. I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.

Lauren Lapkus

#6. I like writing code. I like building product. I like making things that people like.

Paul Buchheit

#7. Uruguay is a country which has grown from immigration, people from all over. That is our origin.

Jose Mujica

#8. Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Susan Faludi

#9. The intrinsic path to success is to focus on being the person that you are, and put all of your energy and drive into being the best possible version of yourself.

Paul Buchheit

#10. Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

Paul Buchheit

#11. While at BUD/S - Marcus Luttrell.

Chris Kyle

#12. Honestly, I was pretty sure AltaVista was going to destroy Google

Paul Buchheit

#13. It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag.

Ronald Reagan

#14. Bitcoin may be the TCP/IP of money.

Paul Buchheit

#15. Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn't need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn't let a job get in the way.

Paul Buchheit

#16. And the great difference between man and monkey is in the larynx, he said, in the incapacity to frame delicately different sounding symbols by which thought could be sustained

H.G.Wells

#17. Great obstacles make great leaders.

Billy Diamond

#18. The companies that are the most influential and most successful are the ones that care about impact and the influence they have on the world.

Paul Buchheit

#19. I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google.

Paul Buchheit

#20. If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.

Paul Buchheit

#21. That's what love can do for you if you let it: build a person out of all your broken pieces. It doesn't matter if the stitches show. The stitches, the scars just prove you earned it.

Elan Mastai

#22. If someone says: That's impossible.

You should understand it as:
According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that's very unlikely

Paul Buchheit

#23. Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

Paul Buchheit

#24. Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults.

Paul Buchheit

#25. Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it.

Paul Buchheit

#26. I think the best kind of virality is a product that people like so much that they just want to tell people about it.

Paul Buchheit

#27. Google is about information and computers and making things really fast. Facebook is about the sharing and connections. These missions give these companies direction and motivation.

Paul Buchheit

#28. I look to see what things I enjoy doing and just try to figure out how to spend my time doing things that I enjoy.

Paul Buchheit

#29. Unless your government is respectable, foreigners will invade your rights; and to maintain tranquillity, it must be respectable - even to observe neutrality, you must have a strong government.

Alexander Hamilton

#30. Start out by making 100 users really happy, rather than a lot more users only a little happy.

Paul Buchheit

#31. We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.

Paul Buchheit

#32. Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Amory Lovins