Most people generalize whatever they did, and say that was the strategy that made it work.

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

Just build things and find out if they work.

One of the things I've learned is to be receptive of feedback.

If Google teaches you anything, it's that small ideas can be big.

What you collect says so much about who you are.

I want Pinterest to be human. The Internet's still so abstract... To me, boards are a very human way of looking at the world.

Don't take too much advice.

There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

I kind of think of engineering like the chefs at a restaurant. Nobody's going to deny chefs are integrally important, but there's also so many other people who contribute to a great meal.

I always just want to move along to the next step.

My mother once said that having a small child is like having a permanently drunk houseguest.

Grounding is most effective when you have some place to go. When you know where you are going, grounding brings strength and confidence, when you’re stagnant you get caught in the past.

In the school of success, information is the greatest asset. The more you read, the more you discover, the more you discover, the more you recover and the better your life become.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

Dull winter will re-appear.

If you are asking whether states and state actors can only respond through revenge, then you are suggesting that diplomatic solutions are hopeless.

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu.

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg. I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it.