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" I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook? "

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" Data is what powers all of us and our lives. It is ubiquitous among our now-connected lives. I love how it is now the oxygen of our Internet world. "

" When you go from building T-shirts to software for a presidential campaign used by a cast of millions, it's pretty easy to think, 'OK, we can build something pretty big.' "

" We were orbiting around the idea of intent and context. We would take the bus into work, and if you said, 'Here's a shirt you might like,' and I open it on my mobile phone, I'm not going to pull out my credit card and wallet. We thought, 'How does someone do this? An e-mail to yourself, or you try to remember?' "

" In New York City, they have their own way of doing things. Every city and every region should do its own thing. "

" Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I don't have much power. But I'll definitely do something to help. "

" People are building apps that are doing super-crazy things, and there's a lot of talk about modeling and microtargeting. Facebook can predict when people are going to break up, and Target is able to predict if a woman is pregnant before she knows just based on the type of lotion she bought. "

" Startupfest is a very positive conference. I think a lot of it has to do with how different culturally it is from other startup or tech conferences. "

" My parents are very supportive: they helped redirect my technology attitude and my punkness into positive things. "

" Ten Internets ago, when PayPal was started, it was all these tools that no one had built yet to bring commerce to the Internet. My first startup used PayPal. "

" I programmed computers every day. And one of my favourite apps we built was this thing called Awesome Updater, that all it did is send you a tweet randomly that was like, 'Yo, you're awesome.' "

" The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience. "

" When you have a good vision and a very large capability of impact, that's very powerful. "

" What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the values of privacy are very different. So it's not that I'm against privacy but that the values around privacy are very different for me and for people who are younger than my parent's generation, for whom it's weird to live in a glass house. "

" The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It doesn't matter what country you're in or what you do for a living - everyone should have the right to an unmonitored Internet. "

" Chicago's a flyover city. I don't think we should try to change that. But it would be really cool if we had a little more opportunity for investors to come hang out. "

" In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote. "

" Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise. "

" Advice is always awesome because it never makes any sense when you compare it all together. It always contradicts other advice. I love advice. "

" Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything. "

" In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it. "

" My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads. "

" Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top self at all times, and if you are unhealthy, or you're sick, or you don't feel good, even it's just because you're sluggish, you're not going to make it because you're not going to be able to react to things. "

" I think there are a lot of hurdles between a normal consumer brand figuring out their mobile strategy - let alone their chat app strategy - and programming a Facebook Messenger chatbot. "

" When I called people and said, 'Hey! Do you want to work for the president?' they usually said yes. I had 2 people say no. One person said no because they were a Republican; one person said no because they're a Libertarian. "

" 'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad. "

" Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest in the right things. "

" Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos. "

" Before I was hired by Obama's team as the CTO for his 2012 re-election campaign, I had certainly never been involved with anything of that nature before. Yet, I somehow knew I could do the job. I attribute that confidence to my experience as a hacker and the subsequent willingness to take risks. "

" The opportunity to step away from everything and take a break is something that shouldn't be squandered. "

" This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more excited about opening the lock... It's not about finding the treasure; it's more about defeating the puzzle. "