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 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 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.

By educating the young, we are building a liberating potential force indirectly.

Human affairs inspire in noble hearts only two feelings-admiration or pity.

I'm attacking the pomposity that says this is more valuable than that. I'm sick of that.

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

I'm not writing to make anyone's children feel safe.

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse.

Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.