Everything is derivative. Everything is a remix, and we all stand on the shoulders of giants - a great phrase.

Every founder has to delude themselves into thinking, "Yes, it's going to be big. It's going to take over the world."

I try to help founders as much as I can, but so many of us we won't even take meetings with people who still just have an idea, because everyone has an idea.

What one realizes there is that we are not in control of the [reddit] community, in any way, shape or form. We have no power over it and so we've lost this total control.

I don't have a crystal ball, but if you can ever put yourself in a situation where you are indispensable - where you aren't part of what looks like a fad, but you actually are a company, a brand that people trust and go to - at this point, you could put some of the mainstays of tech on anything, right?

I like sarcasm. I like snark.

There was a clear lesson here — and that was that the Internet loves Mister Splashy Pants.