Nick Woodman Quotes

I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.

I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.

The way to build a complex system that works is to build it from very simple systems that work.

If something is easy to repair, it is easy to construct.

The software industry has to become better in componentization. That's a clear focus for most of the software companies. How components look, how they are maintained, the ability to maintain them separately.

I started playing around with GoPros on my own to get some cool footage. But it's actually become a big training tool for my team and me.

We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.

The design of each element should be thought out in order to be easy to make and easy to repair.

The key virtue of orbital assembly is that it eliminates the tight connection between the size of the expedition and the size of the rockets used to launch it.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

The iPod is a proprietary integrated product, although that is becoming quite modular. You can download your music from Amazon as easily as you can from iTunes. You also see modularity organized around the Android operating system that is growing much faster than the iPhone. So I worry that modularity will do its work on Apple.

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

If there's one thing government needs desperately, it's the ability to quickly try something, pivot when necessary, and build complex systems by starting with simple systems that work and evolving from there, not the other way around.

I think 'Disney Infinity' is exciting. It's hard to even call it a video game, because it's so different. What excites me about this is how it's going to put more and more of what happens in the game into the hands of the user; it's up to them. You can play it to where everything's laid out for you.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution.

Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit.

When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro.

As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.

GoPro is ideal for pro-active capture, meaning, 'Hey, we're going to do something fun, and we're going to capture a video of it.'

GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

In the early years, I would say GoPro's products were not that impressive.

People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not - they're watching it for the entertainment.