Harper Reed

I wonder which is ultimately more creepy: shopping at Amazon or using Facebook?

— Harper Reed

Campaigns are crazy things. They're half startup, half enterprise.

— Harper Reed

I am patiently waiting for the singularity.

— Harper Reed

I would say Silicon Valley and New York have inflated salaries.

— Harper Reed

You can tell charlatans when they say 'big' in front of everything.

— Harper Reed

I'm a white male in power. In many cases, I'm the enemy.

— Harper Reed

A lot of people are buying things on the Internet - not just white men.

— Harper Reed

I don't drink coffee; I drink a lot of green tea and water.

— Harper Reed

In the U.S., it's all about turnout, which means you have to appeal to every single Democrat to get them to vote.

— Harper Reed

Our goal is to solve a problem for the retailer, not to solve a problem for my ego - which is big.

— Harper Reed

If you get a WhatsApp message, you're probably going to open it. That's the interesting thing.

— Harper Reed

Security is very difficult. You have to be very careful about security, and I think oftentimes people just forget; they don't invest…

— Harper Reed

Myself, I have a philosophy degree and a fake computer-science degree. I say fake because I really didn't learn anything.

— Harper Reed

Photo management software is terrible. Mylio is pretty good - but disrupts the 'natural' flow of things: i.e. Apple Photos.

— Harper Reed

Google Photos is great. I enjoy using it to curate my photo collection online. The integration on iOS to Apple Photos is…

— Harper Reed

TechStars offers a network, and being a part of that network is an awesome opportunity.

— Harper Reed

I spent a lot of time hacking, doing all this stuff, building websites, building communities, working all the time, and then a…

— Harper Reed

This idea of, there's a locked door; how do you open it? You don't necessarily care what's behind it; you're just more…

— Harper Reed

The advice I used to give to engineers I hired was, 'Don't eat the pizza.' Sometimes when you walk into these high-pressure…

— Harper Reed

Don't eat the pizza; get lots of sleep - you have to take care of yourself. It's about being your tip top…

— Harper Reed

There is the egoism of technologists. We do it because we can create. I can handle all of the parameters going into…

— Harper Reed

The first thing is - and this is very important - I support the unmonitored use of the Internet for everyone. It…

— Harper Reed

Presidential campaign and White House are two aggressively separate things. They still think I'm the weird kid in the corner, so I…

— Harper Reed

Let's say we were a peacekeeping force in some small country that most people had never heard of. And we were there…

— Harper Reed

I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes…

— Harper Reed

The information diet of a senior campaign staffer is insane. We were all addicted to our chosen email delivery devices and were…

— Harper Reed

The thing about Snapchat is it is ephemeral, so you don't - it's not like a video that you post to YouTube…

— Harper Reed

What I do think is important is this idea of a 'privacy native' where you grow up in a world where the…

— Harper Reed

I would still describe myself as a hacker. I still remember feeling the magic, the sense of discovery, when I first connected…

— Harper Reed

'Data scientist,' as a profession, is largely a fad.

— Harper Reed

The main ideas for us are scale, stability, and audience.

— Harper Reed

Let's not project our fears onto others.

— Harper Reed

In technology startups, there's a lot of winging it.

— Harper Reed

I never would wish technology failing on any sort of opponent or enemy.

— Harper Reed

If there's a wall, we break it down and go through it.

— Harper Reed

If there's one thing about Chicago, we take care of our own.

— Harper Reed

I love books that stand the test of time.

— Harper Reed

I'm not a very patient person in general.

— Harper Reed

Mobile usage is going up; mobile conversion is not.

— Harper Reed

My career choice has largely been what I wanted to do. I always knew that technology would be one of the threads.

— Harper Reed