David Karp Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I always carry my camera with me.