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

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.

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.

I’d never managed anyone before, so I don’t have a lot of experience. But I’m lucky - I have a lot of team members who have a really honest relationship with me.

Everything is energy. You are an energy magnet, so you electrically energize everything to you and electrically energize yourself to everything you want

Their eyes persecuted him everywhere, eventually following him all the way into the darkness around his bed and into his dreams, like a madness that threatened to overpower him.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Chilli ice cream doesn't taste bad. But I wouldn't eat it again.

Stotting is jumping upward with all four legs simultaneously. My advice: do not die until you've seen a large black poodle stotting in the snow.

I like storms. I like thunder and lightning. What I do during a storm is shag my girlfriend and pretend that we're taking part in the conception of the Antichrist.

I think laughter may be a form of courage.

Death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful - and hence neither good nor bad.

My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.

Everybody is nothing until you love them.