We just want to build a company that focuses on the love of Instagram.

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.

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

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.

She tells everyone she's taken. Yet her heart whispers: he's taking too long.

A number is still very accurate, but its role is changed.In the changed role this number enriches the silence.

A man who makes a mistake, can learn from it.A man that makes the same mistake again, has never made a mistake in the first place.

I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.

Turning corporations loose and letting the profit motive run amok is not a prescription for a more livable world.