51 Quotes by Hilary Mason

I joined bit.ly as chief scientist in October of 2009. The company is a URL-shortener and content-sharing platform; we provide tools for people to share and track links on the Internet.

Science is the practice of failing repeatedly but learning as you go.

A lot of people seem to think that data science is just a process of adding up a bunch of data and looking at the results, but that's actually not at all what the process is.

I think e-mail should be sorted by importance, not by time.

The sender and subject line are actually the most important parts of an e-mail because people tend to put more important information in the subject.

In some ways, chocolate chip cookie recipes are my favorite algorithms. You put a bunch of bad-for-you stuff in a bowl and get a delicious result.

In tech entrepreneurship, even a lot of hack events tend to be overly commercial in that they're designed to produce companies.

As your competitors learn more, you'll need to learn, too.

Even smaller companies are putting resources behind their analytics teams in the same way they put resources behind engineering and product teams. There are some great tools out there that allow even tiny businesses to use data effectively.