Imgur is a data-driven company, and our community is our most important signal. But you can't perfectly plot humans neatly into a chart. It takes someone with instincts and empathy to truly understand the community and represent them in all of the company decisions.
One who understands the relationships between the human heart and the human mind will always out-hack those who chase after an ever-changing technology.
Children notice things first, people later.
A computer is a great device because it enables you to do anything which is automatic, anything that you don't need your understanding for. Understanding is outside a computer. It doesn't understand.
Fiction is nothing less than the subtlest instrument for self-examination and self-display that Mankind has invented yet.
We have only two sources of information about the character of the people around us: we judge them by what they do and by what they say (particularly the first).
The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
We seem to forget that innovation doesn't just come from equations or new kinds of chemicals, it comes from a human place. Innovation in the sciences is always linked in some way, either directly or indirectly, to a human experience.
I do this because I'm an observer of people. That's why I want to be an actor. I'm fascinated by human beings and the circumstances they find themselves in.
Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.
Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.
We don't all see the same way at all. Even if I'm sitting looking at you, there is always the memory of you as well. And a memory is now. So someone who's never met you before is seeing a different person. That's bound to be the case. We all see something different. I assume most people don't look very hard at anything.
A good journalist, as you know, is a great listener. And so's a good writer. And I got to listen to people for almost 20 years. That serves me well, I hope, when I try to understand how a character might be feeling, or how they might react.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
A research problem is not solved by apparatus; it is solved in a man's head.
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
What people call the spirit of the times is mostly their own spirit in which the times mirror themselves.
Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people. Jack: I see you. Rose: And? Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.
Rare are the people who can capture a human being.
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
I'm a fiction writer, and fiction is telling the lives of unreal people. But the only way you can learn to do that well is by really understanding the lives of real people.
I see no difference between scientific exploration and human exploration.
