38 Quotes by Marco Arment

Writing your own blog platform is like roasting your own coffee: it's impractical and you probably shouldn't do it, but for people who really, truly care about it, it's worthwhile to them for their own personal priorities that sound crazy to everyone else. Well, I write my own blog platform and I roast my own coffee.

If you sit on, sleep on, stare at, or touch something for more than an hour a day, spend whatever it takes to get the best.

People have different interpretations of “urgent”.

Instapaper does support paywall sites. I have a list of them, that when someone saves something it sends a copy of the page as they are viewing it only to them. If you subscribe to a paid site, you can save the content. I’m not really touching the money.

As long as I manage investments properly and don’t spend recklessly, Tumblr has given my family a strong safety net and given me the freedom to work on whatever I want. And that’s exactly what I plan to do.

One reason I love the Kindle, more so than the iPad, is that on the Kindle you can’t do anything else but read. It’s the best, because it does the least. It doesn’t even show a clock.

Instapaper wouldn’t be of as much value if it weren’t for these mobile and e-reader devices. They give you a separate physical context for reading.

I don’t even like being quoted in a press release.

Google won’t break into your home. You’ll invite them in.