Instapaper is much bigger today than I could have predicted in 2008, and it has simply grown far beyond what one person can do. To really shine, it needs a full-time staff of at least a few people.

If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

Microsoft loves losing money with online services, so this should stay free forever... unless they get a new CEO who isn't crazy about pouring billions into a hole.

Attention to detail can't be (and never is) added later. It's an entire development philosophy, methodology, and culture.

Google won't break into your home. You'll invite them in.

Keep building and supporting new tools, technologies, and platforms to empower independence, interoperability, and web property ownership.

People have different interpretations of "urgent".

Making a product better often requires removing features.

Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.

Charge for something and make more than you spend.

Emphasizing and rewarding length over quality results in worse writing and more reader abandonment.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.

I've often stopped working for long periods.

Fear is the enemy of hope.

When I made my student film, a feature, nobody wanted to talk to me and I was, like, in the desert for 12 years.

The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that's wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.

The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.

A Warrior knows that the ends do not justify the means. Because there are no ends, there are only means.

Being happy enables you to be free from domination by the outside world.

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves.