Quotes About Karp

#1. Okay, so. You, Belikov, the Alchemist, Sonya Karp, Victor Dashkov, and Robert Doru are all hanging out in West Virginia together."
"No," I said.
"No?"
"We're, uh, not in West Virginia.

Richelle Mead

#2. 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

#3. Suicide, I decided, hurt. A lot. Clearly, this had been a bad idea. I wouldn't be trying that again.

Brianna Karp

#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. The military budget is simply an enormous pork barrel of special privilege, the privileges taking the form of windfall profits, of no-risk profits and, most importantly, of enormous outlays of capital supplied by the Pentagon to arms contractors.

Walter Karp

#6. 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.

David Karp

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

David Karp

#8. 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

#9. you - you never gallop a horse homeward. They get all excited, thinking, 'Woohoo, I'm about to get fed!' and then they bolt for home and you can't control them. Always walk a horse home.

Brianna Karp

#10. Life, unfortunately, doesn't seem to care what we want.

Richelle Mead

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

David Karp

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

David Karp

#13. We have to find places that we protect away from government so that we can all be the unique and interesting and, in my case, somewhat deviant people we'd like to be.

Alexander Karp

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

David Karp

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

David Karp

#16. There is a lot of advice on baby feeding, but almost nothing on how to help crying babies.

Harvey Karp

#17. 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.

David Karp

#18. The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to the "best" sources.

Walter Karp

#19. When we read, we start at the beginning and continue until we reach the end. When we write, we start in the middle and fight our way out.

Vickie Karp

#20. And here I thought you had a soft spot for reckless young girls.

Richelle Mead

#21. One of the things I find really hard and view as a massive drag ... is that I'm losing my ability to be completely anonymous.

Alexander Karp

#22. It's not how busy you are or how fast you're moving, it's how effectively you are advancing in the right direction.

Jason R. Karp

#23. 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

#24. Since free men cannot judge for themselves what endangers their freedom if they believe it is never in danger, it is the chief burden of the public school curriculum to persuade children that their liberty is always secure.

Walter Karp

#25. I always carry my camera with me.

David Karp

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

David Karp

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

David Karp

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

David Karp

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

David Karp

#30. As a kid, I loved storytelling, and I liked the way rappers would paint pictures.

Jensen Karp

#31. What chiefly governs the [U.S.] military budget is the need to spend enormous sums of money in a useless way. The allegedly powerful Pentagon is simply a receptacle for wasteful expenditure, just as a city dump is the receptacle for the refuse of a city.

Walter Karp

#32. You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

Marshall Karp

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

David Karp

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

David Karp

#35. Sign Language: Young Kids Know More Than They Can Say When you think about it, it's not so easy

Harvey Karp

#36. 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.

David Karp

#37. [The public school system is] usually a twelve year sentence of mind control.
Crushing creativity, smashing individualism, encouraging collectivism and
compromise, destroying the exercise of intellectual inquiry, twisting it
instead into meek subservience to authority.

Walter Karp

#38. Behaviours and feelings rarely line up.

Richelle Mead

#39. 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.

David Karp

#40. Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."

Jensen Karp

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

David Karp

#42. Simple, practical, brilliant. What a wonderful world it will be when all families give their children the gifts presented in Dr. Reznick's book. Joy, success ... and health and happiness are just around the corner!

Harvey Karp

#43. I grew up in the suburbs, and I listened to hip-hop for the right reasons, which was to understand a culture that was beyond mine, and to understand what was going on in places outside of my sheltered bubble.

Jensen Karp

#44. 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

#45. 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.

David Karp

#46. Your top job as a new parent is to love your baby like crazy. After showering her with affection, your next two important jobs are to feed her and to calm her when she cries.

Harvey Karp

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

David Karp