People say doing a startup is like a marathon. It's actually a roadtrip at night with no headlights. You think you're going to Toledo but you're actually going to Miami and you might not have enough gas so you might need to buy gas from someone who might take you out if you aren't driving well

Don't take too much advice.

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.

We're trying to do something so that when the average person uses Pinterest, it has to make the service better.

I think anyone who makes products has this simultaneous joy and, almost, shame looking at it. You look at it all day and all you can see is all these things you want to make better.

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

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.