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" Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big. "

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" 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. "

" First of all, a giant corporation probably shouldn't be being hacked by teenagers. I put that on the corporation, not the teenagers. Teenagers are going to do what teenagers are going to do - rebelling. But if they're able to hack a big corporation, that seems like the corporation should be better at security. "

" I usually hire people who have very exemplary work experience. Where they went to school, or what degree they have, really has no play into the hiring decision. "

" 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. "

" I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries. "

" Very smart people are often tricked by hackers, by phishing. I don't exclude myself from that. It's about being smarter than a hacker. Not about being smart. "

" TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity. "

" I have to say that you don't really know stress until you know that the path of the free world is resting a little bit on your shoulders. "

" We developed our product called Dashboard, which was a software tool that was designed to be a virtual campaign office to help volunteers communicate and collaborate through emails and interacting online. It was our attempt to take an offline field office and merge it online. "

" 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?' "

" Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life. "

" 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. "

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

" I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books. "

" A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men. "

" There are a lot of people who are unable to take a break to clear their minds. I imagine they are the ones who need it the most. "

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

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

" The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure environments, it's, like, doughnuts everywhere and all these little cakes. "

" I love books that stand the test of time. "

" The team that I had built was all white dudes with the same perspective on things that was at times comfortable and easy, but we weren't as innovative as our competitors. "

" Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is a bit too much voodoo for me. "

" 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. "

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

" I want to involve creativity more in technology and business. It is obvious that for us to be successful, a healthy relationship with creativity is needed. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "