“I'm really curious about people - what their desires and interests are...” — Hilary Mason Quote

I'm really curious about people - what their desires and interests are - and bit.ly's data tell me that. It gives me an unprecedented window into human communication and behavior.

I don't actually, as a general policy, block any sort of cookies. I keep them all turned on, and that's because I'm willing to make the tradeoff that I let companies gather this information about me in return for a better experience.

Creating things that people want to tie into their identity is the best way to make them spread.

I believe there are a lot of inefficiencies in the way technical innovation happens.

The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.

I mean, what is music anyway? It's a form of communication - at least for me it is. And that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.

One must be frank to be relevant.

Most people want the convenience of the Internet far more than they want the private spaces that older forms of communication protected.

A lot of things have changed since the days of Flickr. Facebook has concentrated the sociality of the Internet within its blue borders, like a Walmart siphoning off the mom-and-pop shops that formerly comprised the Internet's gathering places. Communication, in the age of mobile dominance, has become, of necessity, shorter and snack-sized.