87 Quotes by Stewart Butterfield

I rarely in a working day go more than 10 minutes without looking at Slack.

In Slack, you create channels to discuss different topics. For a small group of people, those channels are relatively easy to manage and navigate.

People sometimes forget how early Flickr came. Facebook didn't add photo sharing till a year after Flickr was acquired by Yahoo.

People think I'm smart because Flickr was successful. I'm lucky. Maybe I'm smart, too. But, I'm lucky.

The useful part of Microsoft was that everything worked together.

What motivates me is just to do a really, really good job at something. If I were a better musician, I probably would've ended up as one.

At my first job in the mid-to-late '90s, almost every product was from Microsoft. Everything was designed to work together - Windows for workgroups, shared M drives, etc., etc.

Email has the virtue - sounds like a bad thing, but it's the virtue of being the lowest common denominator messaging protocol. Everyone can have it. It can cross organizational boundaries. No one owns it. It's not some particular company's platform.

Email is the lowest common denominator. It's the way you get communications from one person to another. There isn't really an alternative. Sometimes people will have Facebook messenger turned on, but 99 percent of the time, if you're sending a message to a human you don't know well, you're using email.