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" 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. "

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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. "

" It was on a bulletin board that I first learned about hacker culture, the 'Let's just break through this wall and see what's on the other side' mentality. "

" When you walk into a field office, you have many opportunities. We'll hand you a call sheet. You can make calls. You can knock on doors, and they'll have these stacks there for you. They'll say: 'Harper, you've knocked on 50 doors. That's great. Here's how you compare to the rest of them.' But it's all very offline. "

" I find that I often forget that people come from all over. In interfaces, products, experiences, and building for people, we always forget that people are not us. "

" I try and wake up relatively early. I listen to some music and check Twitter. I also make sure I weigh myself and check how long I slept. I do that because knowing that data seems better than not knowing it. "

" 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. "

" I spent a lot of time hacking, doing all this stuff, building websites, building communities, working all the time, and then a lot of time drinking, partying, and hanging out. And I had to choose when to do which. "

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

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

" The digital team who were running Twitter, they weren't just going to put out a tweet for fun. They're going to try and figure out how do we measure the impact. Then they'd tweet it, and if it worked, great. "

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

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

" Instagram is amazing, and I enjoy sharing photos there. However, I don't think it is where my photos will go to live. "

" 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. "

" My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" When I give talks, I often quote from a button I received at a Google event: Always Be Creative. I use it to illustrate how important creativity is in technology and business. "

" 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. "

" I'm not a very patient person in general. "

" One of my favourite books about hackers is 'Masters of Deception' about this hacking group in the 1990s. Many of them didn't come from wealthy families. These are kids that are very intelligent; they just happen to be misdirected. "

" The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were aggressively tethered to them. It made sense and wasn't an issue during the campaign because of the importance of the situation. However, once the campaign was over and we were successful, the information flow dried up. "

" 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. "

" If there's a wall, we break it down and go through 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. "

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

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

" Taking time to do something slower than you normally would is a privilege that should not be ignored. "