Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Great products sell themselves.

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

University can teach you skill and give you opportunity, but it can't teach you sense, nor give you understanding. Sense and understanding are produced within one's soul.

You've won the evolutionary lottery: You're a vampire. Let's go to Disneyland!

I think what makes a picture is a moment that is completely spontaneous and natural and unaffected by the photographer.

The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.

Accusing a politician of being politically expedient is like accusing water of being wet or circles for being round.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

You look for one thing and you find another.

Racial relations in this country are plummeting. Racial strife is rising. All the while, Obama is out there talking about unity and bringing us together.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

The discovery of orgone energy was made through consistent, thorough study of energy functions, first in the realm of the psyche, and later in the realm of biological functioning.