Facebook makes me hate the people I know, and Reddit makes me love the people I don't.

It's a lot easier to convince uninformed people than it is to convince politicians.

Having that kind of endorsement and having Paul Graham's readership coming to your site and contributing to it and building the foundation of the community was just a really invaluable way to start Reddit.

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

It takes discipline not to let social media steal your time.

At the end of the day, how many ads did it take to convince you to use Facebook or Twitter? It wasn't marketing or advertising that convinced you to use these services. It was their value.

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way