David Karp quotes:

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  • Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

  • Rituals, even unhappy ones, provide a measure of comfort. Like a superstitious ballplayer who will only use certain bats, my depression rituals have become a fixed, normal part of my life. ... I need rituals to prevent unnecessarily rocking my already shaky emotional boat.

  • Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

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

  • 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.

  • We couldn't be happier with our Storyboard team's effort.

  • I always carry my camera with me.

  • Entrepreneur is someone who has a vision for something and a want to create.

  • 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.

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

  • Today there are millions of people making stuff and putting it into the world: that's become part of our identity and it shouldn't be limited to people who fancy themselves writers, or who are particularly witty or talented.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Tumblr was simply a tool for anyone to make a blog like mine.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • I think appointments are caustic to creativity.

  • Good products are built by people who want to use it themselves

  • I never spent much time with people my own age.

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

  • People tell me I need an assistant, but I dont want one.

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

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

  • Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.

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