51 Quotes by Hilary Mason

It's really fun and challenging to build things that have never been built before.

I decided that since I was trying to teach 'style' of thinking in science and engineering, and 'style' is an art, I should therefore copy the methods of teaching used for the other arts - once the fundamentals have been learned.

When you start at Bitly, you go through this emotional cycle, where first you go, 'Oh my God, this data is amazing.' But then you start looking at it, and you conclude that humanity is completely doomed. Because what people read is cats and Bieber and celebrity gossip and that stuff.

I hope that, in the future, data is used to empower people and not just for marketing purposes.

I think we need more ambition about using our data to make our lives better.

It's rare that you can solve a technology problem with more technology.

You really need to have a lot of empathy for the work you're doing and the people who you're ultimately trying to help, whether that's a business colleague, a boss, or, ultimately, the user of the software you're building.

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

Cool innovation might happen in startups, but they often lack the resources or the deep expertise in the problems they want to address.