Quora's Quotes

#1. The area we define as what Quora's good at is long-form text that's useful over time, and where you care about who wrote the text. Not that you need to be friends with them, just that they're someone trustworthy.

Adam D'Angelo

#2. I've really enjoyed starting Quora from the beginning. It's really nice to have a new start to things.

Adam D'Angelo

#3. When we get people to log in, they end up using Quora a lot more, and we can provide a lot better experience for them. We can show them a personalized news feed; we can send them digest emails and do all this ranking to find some stuff they want to read.

Adam D'Angelo

#4. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)

Adrian Lamo

#5. Many believe effective networking is done face-to-face, building a rapport with someone by looking at them in the eye, leading to a solid connection and foundational trust.

Raymond Arroyo

#6. We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.

Adam D'Angelo

#7. On Quora, you're not answering questions because you want to get points or because you have nothing else to do.

Adam D'Angelo

#8. There's a lot of information that has been in peoples' heads and hasn't gotten onto the Internet. Even as the Web has gotten really big, there's just been this gap. So we made Quora as a general place for people to share knowledge of all kinds.

Adam D'Angelo

#9. I think a lot of what the iPad app is going to be used for is just reading the best content on Quora. It really helps the whole system run because people who are writing answers can get this very wide distribution to a large audience of readers.

Adam D'Angelo

#10. Anything you want to know, you go to Quora and get it. And at the same time, give people a platform that is easy to use for sharing the knowledge.

Adam D'Angelo

#11. We started off by inviting our friends to use Quora, and then they invited their friends, and it just grew from there.

Adam D'Angelo

#12. [note to Lois]Believe. Always believe.

Joe Kelly

#13. We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.

Adam D'Angelo

#14. You have to get comfortable giving up control, and you find people who do things better than you do. Quora now does better with the team we have built.

Adam D'Angelo

#15. Most of the stuff that people look at on Quora today was not written in the last month. You write something really good, and maybe it's the definitive answer on the Internet for the next 10 years. Maybe it's only a year, but not like a tweet, where it's only relevant for a day or a week.

Adam D'Angelo

#16. Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

James Lankford

#17. Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#18. The more questions and answers we get, the more useful Quora is.

Adam D'Angelo

#19. Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.

Adam D'Angelo

#20. Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours.

Metiria Turei